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History of neurology /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh ; New York :
Elsevier,
�2010.
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| Colección: | Handbook of clinical neurology ;
3rd ser., v. 95. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Handbook of Clinical Neurology; Series Editors; Copyright; List of contributors; Contents; Beginnings; Chapter 1: Ancient trepanation; Introduction; EphraIm George Squier and Paul Broca; The Discovery of Neolithic Trepanation; Diagnosing Trepanation; A Temporal and Geographic Survey of Ancient Trepanation; Why did they Trepan?; The Fate of Two Theories; Chapter 2: Mesopotamia; The Measure of Mesopotamia; Mesopotamian Medicine: Basic Tenets; Neurological Symptoms in Mesopotamian Medical Texts; Conclusions; Chapter 3: Neurology in Ancient Egypt; Introduction; Methodology; Sources
- Egyptian Physicians and SurgeonsMedical Practice in Ancient Egypt; Neuroanatomy; Symptoms of Neurological Disease; Paleopathology of the Nervous System; Commentary on the Significance of Neurology in Ancient Egypt; Chapter 4: Neurology in the Bible and the Talmud; Introduction; Neurology in the Bible; Neurology in the Talmud; Conclusions; The Greco-Roman world; Introduction; Pre-Hippocratic Concepts: Mythological, Literary and Philosophical Sources; Hippocratic Neurology: The Brain in Health and Disease; Neuroanatomy in Alexandria: New Insights into the Structure of the Nervous System
- The Millennial Debate About the ``Regent Part��The Synthesis of Ancient Neurosciences in Rome: Galen on the Brain and Nerves; Conclusions; Chapter 6: After Galen: late Antiquity and the Islamic world; Introduction; Late Antiquity: Emergence of Galenism; The Arabic/islamic Period; A Paradigm Shift: Through Developments in the Physics of Light and Vision; Conclusions; Chapter 7: Neurological conditions in the European Middle Ages; Introduction; The Setting; Pathologies of Neurological Conditions; Neurologic Conditions and Social Responses
- Chapter 8: The development of neurology and the neurological sciences in the 17th centuryIntroduction; Specific Prerequisites for the Rise of Neurology; How Neurology Came to Be; 1664: Cerebri Anatome; The Book on Convulsive Disorders; De Anima Brutorum: A Textbook of Neurophysiology and Neuropathology; The Pathological Part: Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Impact, Reaction, and Partial Survival of Willis's Neurology; Chapter 9: Understanding the nervous system in the 18th century; Introduction; Hollow Nerves And Their Spirits; The Microscope; Some Clever Experiments
- The Irritable and Sensitive Nervous SystemLife Forces and Medical Practices; Vibrations and Invisible, Subtle Fluids; Electricity, Medicine, and the Nerve Force; Looking Back; Origins of modern neurology; Chapter 10: The birth of localization theory; Introduction; Swedenborg and His Premonitions; Gall's Organology; Bouillaud and Aubertin; Broca on Localization; The Daxes on Cerebral Dominance; Jackson and the Right Hemisphere; The Motor Cortex; David Ferrier's Impact; Converging Lines of Evidence; Chapter 11: On the use of animal experimentation in the history of neurology; Introduction