Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1959

SILAS WEIR MITCHELL (1829-1914) Lectures on diseases of the nervous system, especially to women. Henry C. Lea's Son 1881 238 pp., 5 charts (part fold.). 19.7 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1956

Mitchell was an excellent clinician but he also maintained an active interest in research. Early in his career he investigated the toxicity of arrow poisons and snake venoms. During the Civil War he made fundamental observations on ascending neuritis, causalgia, reflex paralysis, and the psychology of amputations. Later in his career he turned chiefly to neurology with an active interest in the treatment of injuries to the peripheral nerves and the central nervous system. In the present work, Mitchell presents thirteen lectures which cover such subjects as the paralyses of hysteria, hysterical motor ataxia and paresis, spasmodic conditions, and chorea. It is a comprehensive study of psychosomatic phenomena in which Mitchell stresses the mental origins of neurotic conditions.

Cited references: Cushing M403; Waller 6569 (2nd ed., London, 1885)