HISTORY OF BRITISH NEUROLOGY by F Clifford Rose (Imperial College School of Medicine, UK) Diseases of the nervous system are a relatively small but vitally important part of medicine. There was no scientific basis for diagnosis or treatment until the seventeenth century when Dr Thomas Willis (16211675) and his team tackled anatomy by dissection of the nervous system, physiology by animal experiments and pathology by post-mortem analysis. It was Willis who first used the word "neurology" and his team, who were among the founders of the Royal Society, included Christopher Wren who, besides being famous as an architect of London's churches, drew the first modern diagram of the human brain. Developments in our knowledge of the nervous system in the following centuries, and the unique importance of clinical neurology, became globally recognised through the work of Whytt, Heberden, Hughlings Jackson, Gowers and many others. The work and discoveries of these eminent specialists were extended with the introduction of such neurosciences as neurophysiology, neuropathology and neuro-radiology, and this is the first comprehensive account of a battle with the unknown by determined practitioners.

Neurologists, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and medical historians from North America, Europe, and Asia explore three centuries of British neurology offer biographies of leading characters of the period, illustrated with bandw photographs, as well as contributions discussing such concepts as the evolution of British neurology in comparison with other countries and three early 19th century British neurological texts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A comprehensive history of the National Hospital, Queen Square, and its Institute, placed within the context of British neurology.

The neurologists describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists. Relying entirely upon hitherto unseen primary sources drawn from archives across Britain, Europe and North America, this book analyses the emergence of neurology in the context of the development of modern medicine in Britain. The neurologists thus surveys the patterns of change and modernisation that influenced British medical culture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In so doing, it ultimately seeks an account of how neurological knowledge acquired such an expansive view of human nature as to become concerned in the last decades of the twentieth century with the human sciences, philosophy, art and literature.

Handbook of Clinical Neurology: Volume 95 is the first of over 90 volumes of the handbook to be entirely devoted to the history of neurology. The book is a collection of historical materials from different neurology professionals. The book is divided into 6 sections and composed of 55 chapters organized around different aspects of the history of neurology. The first section presents the beginnings of neurology: ancient trepanation, its birth in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt; the emergence of neurology in the biblical text and the Talmud; neurology in the Greco-Roman world and the period following Galen; neurological conditions in the European Middle Ages; and the development of neurology in the 17th and 18th centuries. The second section narrates the birth of localization theory; the beginning of neurology and histological applications, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, surgical neurology and other anatomo-clinical methods. The third section covers further development of the discipline, including methods of neurological illustration and hospitals in neurology and neurosurgery. This section also narrates the history of child neurology, neurodisability and neuroendocrinology. It also features the application of molecular biology on clinical neurology. The fourth section describes the dysfunctions of the nervous system and their history. The fifth and last section covers the regional landmarks of neurology and the different treatments and recovery. The text is informative and useful for neuroscience or neurology professional, researchers, clinical practitioners, mental health experts, psychiatrists, and academic students and scholars in neurology. * A comprehensive accounting of historical developments and modern day advancements in the field of neurology * State-of-the-art information on topics including brain damage and dysfunctions of the nervous system * New treatments and recovery methods from redundancy to vicariation and neural transplantation, amongst others

Interest in the history of neurological science has increased significantly during the last decade, but the significance of war has been overlooked in related research. In contrast, this book highlights war as a factor of progress in neurological science. Light is shed on this little-known topic through accounts given by neurologists in war, experiences of soldiers suffering from neurological diseases, and chapters dedicated to neurology in total and contemporary war. Written by experts, the contributions in this book focus on the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, World Wars I and II, and recent conflicts such as Vietnam or Afghanistan. Comprehensive yet concise and accessible, this book serves as a fascinating read for neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, historians, and anyone else interested in the history of neurology.

Neuroscience is one of the scientific fields where progress in the 20th century has been spectacular. With the coming of the new millennium, it is appropriate to look at some of the advances and the neurologists who helped to produce them. The original contributions in this volume reflect the background against which the rapid advances have taken place in the past 100 years. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON, O. M., P. R. S. (1857-1952) (87 KB). Contents: Sir Charles Sherrington OM, PRS (1857OCo1952) (W C Gibson); Henry Head (1861OCo1940) (C Gardner-Thorpe); The British Contribution to Aphasiology (K Poeck); The Concept of Hemispheric Lateralisation (J Stein); James Hinshelwood (1859OCo1919) and Developmental Dyslexia (W M H Behan); Wilfred Harris (1869OCo1960) (E Nieman); Sir Gordon Holmes (1876OCo1965) (W Penfield); Sir Gordon Holmes: A Personal Reminiscence (M Critchley); Gordon Holmes' Work on Sensation and His Association with Henry Head (R Henson); Looking and Seeing OCo Gordon Holmes' 1936 John Mallet Purser Lecture Revisited (C Kennard); Kinnier Wilson (1878OCo1937) and His Books (B Ashworth & E Jellinek); Movement Disorders (K B Bhattacharyya); Kernicterus (B Corner); The Watershed of Neurosurgery (J R Heron); Sir Victor Horsley (1857OCo1916) Revisited (J Lyons); Neurosurgery in the NineteenOCoTwenties and Thirties (B Lichterman); Neurolathyrism (D F Cohn & D Paleacu); From Treponemes to Prions: The Emergence of British Neuropathology (J Geddes); Mitochondrial Myopathies (H R Cock & A H V Schapira); British and American Neurologists Meet: London, 1927 (M Flye & J Toole); The Influence of British Neurology on Harvard Neurology and Vice Versa (H R Tyler). Readership: Neurologists and medical historians."