Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1843

CHARLES ÉDOUARD BROWN-SéQUARD (1817-1894) Leçons sur les nerfs vaso-moteurs sur l'épilepsie et sur les actions réflexes normales et morbides. G. Masson 1872 x, 211 pp. 22.1 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1839

The initial portion of the present work consists of a translation of three lectures from Brown-Séquard's Course of lectures on the physiology and pathology of the central nervous system (see No. 1841). The lectures concerned the physiological and pathological phenomena dependent on the cervical sympathetic nerves, the influence of the nervous system on nutrition and glandular secretion, and the etiology, symptoms, and treatment of epilepsy. The remainder of the book consists of an appendix containing a series of translations from a number of sources in which various diseases of the nervous system are discussed. The emphasis is on organic changes in the brain and spinal cord and, as in most of the author's works, there is ample evidence that his observations were based on sound experimentation and expert clinical observation. All of the translations were made by Joseph Marie Alfred Béni-Barde (1834-1919), a Parisian neurologist and hydrotherapist.

See Related Record(s): 1841

Cited references: Waller 1503

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