Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2328

WILDER GRAVES PENFIELD (1891-1976) Epilepsy and cerebral localization. Charles C. Thomas 1941 x, 623 [2] pp., illus., diagrs. 25.4 cm.

This encyclopedic work remains an authority on the history, etiology, mechanisms, and treatment of epilepsy. Penfield, born in Spokane, Washington, emigrated to Canada where he became professor of neurology and neurosurgery at McGill University and director of the Montreal Neurological Institute. In writing this book Penfield collaborated with Erickson, a respected research and clinical neurologist, who had been on the McGill faculty but was then associate professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin. The work is greatly enhanced by chapters on electroencephalography by Herbert Henri Jasper (b. 1906) and the psychology of the epileptic by M. R. Harrower-Erickson (fl. 1920).

Gift of John Martin, M.D.