Facets

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…

1885

#4748

Contribution à l’étude des paralysies radiculaires du plexus brachial.

First description of atrophic paralysis of the muscles of the hand following lesion of the brachial plexus and eighth cervical and first dorsal nerves (“Klumpke’s paralysis”).

1887

#9121

Ten days in a mad-house.

By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…

1889

#2100

Des polynévrites en général et des paralysies et atrophies saturnines en particulier.

Madame Dejerine-Klumpke, famous neurologist, contributed an important work on lead palsies.

1894

#12456

Quelques observations expérimentales sur l'influence de l'insomnie absolue.

The first experimental study of sleep deprivation. Manaseina "performed her experimental investigation on 10 puppies (2, 3, or 4 months old), fed by their mothers, by keeping the animals in constant activity. The expe…

1895 –1901

#1424

Anatomie des centres nerveux. 2 vols.

Classic summary of neuroanatomy at the end of the nineteenth century—comprehensive, beautifully illustrated, and scholarly. It is a goldmine of historical information with an outstanding bibliography.

1896

#12454

Le sommeil, tiers de notre vie. Pathologie, physiologie, hygiène, psychologie. Traduit de Russe avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Ernest Jaubert.

Perhaps the first book on the physiology of sleep. The author examines the physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology of sleep, including the differences between the waking and sleeping states, the general phenome…

1906

#1300

On the distribution of chlorides in nerve cells and fibres.

1920

#4720

Zur Lehre der Erkrankungen des striären Systems.

“Vogt syndrome”, disease of the corpora striata.

1930

#4765

A report of progress on the use of ephedrine in a case of myasthenia gravis.

Harriet Edgeworth discovered by accident the beneficial effect of ephedrine in myasthenia gravis. Digital facsimile from jamanetwork.com at this link.

1931

#4670.5

Immunological differences between strains of poliomyelitis virus.

1934

#4768

Treatment of myasthenia gravis with physostigmine.

Introduction of physostigmine in treatment of myasthenia gravis. She replaced this with neostigmine in 1935 (Proc. roy. Soc. Med., 28, 759-61).

1936

#14286

Age and other factors in motor recovery from precentral lesions in monkeys.

This was the first of a series of papers by Kennard that led to what became known as the Kennard Principle, which posits a negative linear relationship between age of a brain lesion and the recovery outcome. The earli…

1937

#4671

Infantile paralysis and cerebral diplegia: Methods used for the restoration of function.

1938

#4612

Meningiomas: Their classification, regional behavior, life history, and surgical end results.

Begun in 1915, soon after Cushing's monograph on pituitary disorders, this represents 25 years of work, and is, by common consent, regarded as Cushing’s greatest clinical monograph. Reprint, 2 vols., New York, Hafner,…

1938

#4660

Recovery of the virus of equine encephalomyelitis from the brain of a child.

Western equine encephalitis virus recovered from man.

1950

#5016

Bibliography of electroencephalography, 1875-1948. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Suppl. No. 1

Covers both normal and disease states. Suppl. No. 23 (1964), ed. M. Fink, covers the period 1951-62.

1951

#4672.4

A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.

An exhaustive list of books and papers.

1963

#5019.3

Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860: A history presented in selected English texts.

1974

#5019.13

Breakthroughs in hypothalamic and pituitary research. In: Integrative hypothalamic activity, editors D.F. Swaab and J.P. Schadé.

1974

#7009

Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.

Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…

1983 –1988

#1588.19

A history of neurophysiology in the 17th and 18th centuries. From concept to experiment. A history of neurophysiology in the 19th century. 2 vols.

1989

#10742

A history of stroke: Its recognition and treatment.

1995

#10979

An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness.

An autobiographical study of bipolar disorder by a distinguished American clinical psychologist who personally suffers from this disorder.

1998

#11079

Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections: Clinical description of the first 50 cases.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Swedo, Leonard, Garvey.... Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), "an hypothesis that there exists a subset …

2001

#10417

The technology of orgasm: "Hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction.

2002

#11135

A history of neuroradiology (1895-2002). XVIIth Symposium Radiologicum: Paris-France, August 18-24, 2002.

2013

#11045

A novel prion disease associated with diarrhea and autonomic neuropathy.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Mead, Gandhi, Beck, Collinge. Collinge was the main author. Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)

2015

#10424

L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).

Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

2017

#10666

Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.

2017

#11088

A history of the mind and mental health in classical Greek medical thought.

2018

#11089

Mental illness in ancient medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Edited by Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer.