Facets

1810

#4675

An inaugural dissertation on the disease termed petechial, or spotted fever. Submitted to the Examining Committee of the Medical Society of Connecticut, for the county of Hartford.

This graduation dissertation was the first published brochure on cerebrospinal meningitis. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1812

#4924

Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind.

The first American textbook on psychiatry, and, considering the state of that science in Rush’s time, one of the most noteworthy. It underwent four editions.

1843

#13612

Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts.

Dorothea Dix played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill in various U.S. states. This was probably the first of her many publications advoca…

1854

#9116

On the construction, organization and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1864

#2167

Gunshot wounds and other injuries of nerves.

Mitchell, Morehouse, and Keen were army surgeons during the American Civil War; their book was the first exhaustive study of the traumatic neuroses. Includes the first description of ascending neuritis, and also of th…

1885

#5003.1

The insane in the United States and Canada.

The first history of psychiatry in the United States and Canada. Chapter 5 is the first survey of psychiatry in Canada.

1908

#9724

A mind that found itself.

In 1900 Beers was confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He was later confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During those periods he experienced and witness…

1916 –1917

#5006

The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada. Edited by Henry M. Hurd. 4 vols.

Hurd was Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. The work includes his history of American psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1933

#4656

Encephalitis: studies on experimental transmission.

Isolation of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. With C. Armstrong and H. A. McCordock.

1934

#4688

Experimental lymphocytic choriomeningitis of monkeys and mice produced by a virus encountered in studies of the 1933 St. Louis encephalitis epidemic.

Isolation of the virus of benign lymphocytic choriomeningits.

1936

#9304

The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).

1949

#5015.1

The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

1958

#4661.2

St. Louis encephalitis in 1933; observations on epidemiological features.

In a report to the Surgeon General in 1933, Lumsden concluded that the Culex mosquito was the vector of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. His report was not published until 1958.

1968

#7928

The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.

1971

#10765

Freud and the Americans: The beginnings of psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917.

1973

#9153

Mental institutions in America: Social policy to 1873.

1983

#9156

Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.

1994

#9115

The art of asylum-keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the origins of Ameican psychiatry.

1994

#10500

Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States.

1995

#10766

The rise and crisis of psychoanalysis in America: Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985.

2006

#9155

The dilemma of federal mental health policy: Radical reform or incremental change?

2007

#9118

The architecture of madness: Insane asylums in the United States.

2014

#12713

Acute neurologic illness of unknown etiology in children - Colorado, August-September 2014.

The authors reported a cluster of 9 children seen at Colorado Children's Hospital with an acute neurologic illness characterized by extremity weakness, cranial nerve dysfunction, diplopia (double vision), facial droop…

2015

#12714

Acute flaccid myelitis of unknown etiology in California, 2012-2015

The authors presented a retrospective study based on demographics, race, ethnicity, signs, lab results, MRI results of 59 patients identified between June 2012 and July 2015 who presented symptoms that they characteri…

2019

#12715

Association of enterovirus D68 with Acute flaccid myelitis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2009-2018.

The authors correlated increases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) with EV-D68 outbreaks. They noted that EV-D68 infected mice exhibited paralyzed limbs, and they reported that EV-D68 had undergone genome evolutiion tha…