1781 VIGILIIS VON CREUTZENFELD, Stephan Hieronymus de (1750 – 1789)
Bibliotheca chirurgica. 2 vols.
Fulton (No. 6785) points out that this work contains the “most complete bibliographical study of the literature of head injury that had been brought together up to that time”. Digital facsimile from Google Books at th…
GMN 5000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6549
1820 –1823 COOKE, John (1756 – 1838)
A treatise on nervous diseases.
“The earliest separate work on clinical neurology” (McHenry). Includes the Croonian lecture (1819) on apoplexy, and sections on palsy and epilepsy. The work includes the first history of neurological thought.
GMN 4519.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/379
1895 –1901 DEJERINE, Joseph Jules (1849 – 1917); DEJERINE-KLUMPKE, Augusta (1859 – 1927)
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.
GMN 1424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2158
1899 SOURY, Jules (1842 – 1915)
Le système nerveux centrale structure et fonctions. Histoire critique des théories et des doctrines. 2 vols.
Massive history of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system from ancient Greece to the end of the 19th century, limited in its historical analysis. The second volume is a survey of end of 19th century opinions…
GMN 1574.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1323
1900 LAEHR, Bernhard Heinrich (1820 – 1905)
Die Literatur der Psychiatrie, Neurologie und Psychologie von 1459-1799. 3 vols.
GMN 5005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6567
1930 FEARING, Franklin (1892 – 1962)
Reflex action. A study in the history of physiological psychology.
Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1964.
GMN 1577 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1334
1934 CANNON, Walter Bradford (1871 – 1945)
The story of the development of our ideas of chemical mediation of nerve impulses.
GMN 1580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1348
1940 WILSON, Samuel Alexander Kinnier (1878 – 1937)
Neurology 2 pts. Edited by A.N. Bruce.
Wilson died before this monumental work was completed, and it was edited by A. N. Bruce. It includes a vast amount of history and hundreds of references. Second edition, 1954.
GMN 4614 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8933
1944 WARTENBERG, Robert (1887 – 1956)
Studies in reflexes. History, psychology, synthesis and nomenclature.
Also published in book form, Chicago, 1945.
GMN 5014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6595
1945 TEMKIN, Oswei (1902 – 2002)
The falling sickness: A history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology. Second edition.
Revised second edition. Baltimore, 1971.
GMN 5015 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6598
1950 BRAZIER, Mary Agnes Burniston Brown (1904 – 1995)
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.
GMN 5016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6603
1956 –1963 KOLLE, Kurt (1898 – 1975)
Grosse Nervenärzte. 3 vols.
GMN 5019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6609
1958 POYNTER, Frederick Noel Lawrence (1908 – 1979)
The history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions: an Anglo-American symposium.
GMN 1586 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1382
1959 RIESE, Walther (1890 – 1976)
A history of neurology.
GMN 5019.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6612
1959 STOOKEY, Byron (1887 – 1966); RANSOHOFF, Joseph (1915 – 2001)
Trigeminal neuralgia: Its history and treatment.
Based on over 700 cases of trigeminalneuralgia which were seen and operated on by Dr. Stookey. The chapters on nonsurgical treatment, alcohol injection, and the statistical studies were prepared by Dr. Ransohoff.
GMN 14358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16688
1968 ELDRIDGE, Margaret
A history of the treatment of speech disorders.
GMN 5019.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6650
1969 MCHENRY, Lawrence C. (1929 – 1985)
Garrison’s History of neurology. Revised and enlarged with a bibliography of classical, original and standard works in neurology.
A comprehensive, well-illustrated history of the subject, considerably enlarging Garrison’s work previously published in C. L. Dana’s Textbook of nervous diseases, 1925, pp. xv-lvi.
GMN 5019.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6656
1970 YOUNG, Robert Maxwell (1935 – )
Mind, brain and adaptation in the nineteenth century. Cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier.
GMN 1588.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1492
1970 HAYMAKER, Webb Edward (1902 – 1984); SCHILLER, Francis (1909 – 2003)
The founders of neurology. One hundred and forty-six biographical sketches by eighty-nine authors. Compiled and 2nd edition.
Neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, neuropathologists, clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons are included. 1st ed., 1953, had 133 biographies; 2nd ed. has 146, 34 of which have been added. Because the 2nd edition d…
GMN 5019.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6664
1970 TINTEROW, Maurice M.
Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.
Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.
GMN 5019.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6666
1971 PAUL, John Rodman (1893 – 1971)
A history of poliomyelitis.
GMN 4672.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/937
1971 WOLF, John K.
The classical brain stem syndromes. Translations of the original papers with notes on the evolution of clinical neuroanatomy.
GMN 5019.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6670
1974 BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842); MAGENDIE, François (1783 – 1855); CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)
The way in and the way out. François Magendie, Charles Bell and the roots of the spinal nerves. With a facsimile of Charles Bell’s annotated copy of his Idea of a new anatomy of the brain. Edited by Paul Cranefield.
An annotated bibliography of the literature documenting the history of this controversy together with reproductions of the texts of the crucial papers. See Nos. 1254-1259.
GMN 1588.14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1538
1974 HAYMAKER, Webb Edward (1902 – 1984); ANDERSON, Evelyn
Breakthroughs in hypothalamic and pituitary research. In: Integrative hypothalamic activity, editors D.F. Swaab and J.P. Schadé.
GMN 5019.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6680
1974 BRUYN, George Willem (1928 – 2002)
A centennial bibliography of Huntington’s chorea, 1872-1972.
Over 2,000 references to original works. Chronological arrangement. Author, geographic and other indexes. With F. Baro and N. C. Myrianthopoulos.
GMN 5019.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6691
1975 WORDEN, Frederic Garfield (1918 – 1995); SWAZEY, Judith P. (1939 – ); ADELMAN, George (1926 – )
The neurosciences: Paths to discovery.
Thirty-one contributions to a symposium in honour of F. O. Schmitt.
GMN 1588.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1544
1975 EDINGER, Johanna Gabrielle Ottilie "Tilly" (1897 – 1967)
Paleoneurology 1804-1966: An annotated bibliography.
GMN 10641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12834
1977 ROTTENBERG, David Allan; HOCHBERG, Fred Harvey
Neurological classics in modern translation.
Full translations of 20 classic European contributions to 19th and 20th century neurology.
GMN 5019.14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6686
1977 WERNICKE, Carl (1848 – 1905); EGGERT, Gertrude H.
Wernicke's works on aphasia: A sourcebook and review.
GMN 13277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15543
1978 COURVILLE, Cyril Brian (1900 – 1968); COOPER, William Conrad (1931 – 2006); THOMAS, M. L. Manson
Catalog of works in the neurological sciences collected by Cyril Brian Courville, representative of clinical neurology, neuroanatomy, and neuropathology with particular reference to head trauma.
GMN 8775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10953
1981 SPILLANE, John David (1909 – 1985)
The doctrine of the nerves. Chapters in the history of neurology.
Deals with the structure, function, and diseases of the nervous system to the end of the 19th century.
GMN 5019.18 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6703
1983 –1988 BRAZIER, Mary Agnes Burniston Brown (1904 – 1995)
A history of neurophysiology in the 17th and 18th centuries. From concept to experiment. A history of neurophysiology in the 19th century. 2 vols.
GMN 1588.19 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1608
1983 GALL, Franz Joseph (1758 – 1828); HEINTEL, Helmut; HEINTEL, Brigitte
Franz Joseph Gall Bibliographie. Mit einem Porträt und 13 Abbildungen
GMN 11238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13435
1985 JEANNEROD, Marc (1935 – 2011)
The brain machine: The development of neurophysiological thought.
Translation of Le cerveau-machine: physiologie de la volonté, Paris, 1983.
GMN 1588.21 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1617
1987 CLARKE, Edwin Sisterton (1919 – 1996); JACYNA, L. Stephen
Nineteenth century origins of neuroscientific concepts.
Detailed analysis, emphasizing first half of 19th century, with detailed bibliographies, and bibliographical notes.
GMN 1588.24 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1645
1987 HARRINGTON, Anne
Medicine, mind, and the double brain: A study in nineteenth-century thought.
GMN 11643 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13844
1989 LEMAK, Noreen Ann (1921 – 2013); FIELDS, William S.
A history of stroke: Its recognition and treatment.
GMN 10742 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12937
1990 ASHWAL, Stephen (1945 – )
The founders of child neurology. Edited by Stephen Ashwal.
125 biographical essays, with portraits and bibliographies, documenting the history of child neurology from the 17th century to the present.
GMN 5019.22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6715
1991 SHEPHERD, Gordon M. (1933 – )
Foundations of the neuron doctrine.
GMN 7333 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9504
1993 STOL, Marten (1940 – )
Cuneiform Monographs II: Epilepsy in Babylonia.
GMN 8313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10489
1994 TRENT, James W. Jr.
Inventing the feeble mind: A history of mental retardation in the United States.
GMN 10500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12693
1994 ELING, Paulus Alphons Theresia Maria (Paul) (1951 – )
Reader in the history of aphasia from [Franz] Gall to [Norman] Geschwind. Edited by Paul Eling.
GMN 12638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14879
1995 CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893); GELFAND, Toby (1942 – ); GOETZ, Christopher G.; BONDUELLE, Michel
Charcot: Constructing neurology
An essential account of the life and contributions of Charcot.
GMN 11456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13655
1996 O’MALLEY, Charles Donald (1907 – 1970); CLARKE, Edwin Sisterton (1919 – 1996)
The human brain and spinal cord: A historical study illustrated by writings from antiquity to the twentieth century. Second edition, revised and enlarged with a new preface by Edwin Clarke.
Massive anthology of primary source material on neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. Excellent commentaries and bibliographies. First edition, 1968.
GMN 1588.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1478
1996 CLARKE, Edwin Sisterton (1919 – 1996); DEWHURST, Kenneth Eastham (1919 – 1984)
An illustrated history of brain function. Imaging the Brain from Antiquity to the Present. Second edition, revised and enlarged, with a new preface by Edwin Clarke and a new chapter surveying advances in imaging technology by Michael J. Aminoff.
First edition, Oxford, 1985.
GMN 1588.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1503
2000 SWANSON, Larry William (1945 – ); TOGA, Arthur W.; MAZZIOTTA, John C.
A history of neuroanatomical mappiing IN: Arthur W. Toga and John C. Mazziotta, Brain mapping: The systems, Chapter 3, pp. 77-109.
Extensively illustrated in color, with a thorough bibliography of original references.
GMN 6825 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8989
2003 SILVER, John Russell
History of the treatment of spinal cord injuries.
A history of the treatment and rehabilitation of spinal cord and cauda equina injuries.
GMN 7839 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10011
2003 ROCCA, Julius (1956 – )
Galen on the brain: Anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD.
GMN 8307 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10483
2003 BRUYN, George Willem (1928 – 2002); POSER, Charles Marcel (1923 – 2010)
The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.
GMN 9452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11635
2005 MURRAY, Thomas John "Jock" (1938 – )
Multiple sclerosis: The history of a disease.
GMN 8729 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10907
