Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1956

SILAS WEIR MITCHELL (1829-1914) Injuries of nerves and their consequences. J. B. Lippincott 1872 viii, 377 pp. 21.2 cm.

Based on his extensive experience during the Civil War at Philadelphia's Turner's Lane Hospital, where he treated hundreds of soldiers with peripheral nerve wounds, Mitchell produced this basic and time-honored work on the symptoms, signs, and treatment of nerve injuries. Together with his other major work, Gunshot wounds (1864), it established fundamental lines of treatment which remained essentially unchanged until World War I. Mitchell is probably as well known for his literary efforts--poems, novels, and essays--as for his famous clinical skill.

Cited references: Cushing M401; Garrison-Morton 4544

Gift of John Martin, M.D.