Entry Nos. 4900–4999

1908 CE–1952 CE

#18

The works of Aristotle translated into English. Edited by J.A. Smith and W.D. Ross. 12 vols.

De motu animalium. De incessu animalium. In his Works, edited by J.A. Smith and W.D. Ross, 5, 698a-714b., Oxford, 1912. De Anima. In his Works… translated into English. Edited by J. A. Smith and W. D. Ross. 3, …

1856 CE

#22

Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.

Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…

1876 CE

#174

L’uomo delinquente, studiato in rapporto alla antropologia, alla medicina legale ed alle discipline carcerarie.

Lombroso inaugurated the doctrine of a “criminal type”. His systematic studies showed that in general the criminal population exhibits a higher percentage of physical, nervous and mental anomalies than the…

1672 CE

#1544

De anima brutorum

Chap. XIV is devoted to the sense of hearing; in it Willis described the “paracusis of Willis” (p. 73). English translation, 1683. A probable description of myasthenia gravis is given in Pars. 2, Cap. IX. …

1892 CE

#4579

Gesammelte Abhandlungen, edited by A. Westphal. 2 vols.

Westphal was Professor of Psychiatry at Berlin; at this time was common for physicians to practice both psychiatry and neurology. Vol. 1: psychiatry; Vol. 2: neurology.

1838 CE

#4798

Des maladies mentales. 2 vols. and atlas.

Esquirol succeeded Pinel at the Salpêtrière, and was the first lecturer on psychiatry. After Pinel he was a founder of the French School. This is the first modern textbook on psychiatry. It is notable for…

1932 CE

#4900

Intracranial tumours.

Cushing’s operating technique reduced the mortality rate dramatically in intracranial surgery. This was his last published report on the statistical results of his operations on brain tumors-- essentially a summ…

1932 CE–1933 CE

#4901

Intracranial aneurysms: Cerebral arterioradiography: Surgical treatment.

The first planned intracranial operation for aneurysm.

1933 CE

#4902

Techniques des diverses sympathectomies lombaires.

Lumbar sympathectomy by the antero-lateral extraperitoneal approach.

1934 CE

#4903

Treatment of hydrocephalus by endoscopic coagulation of the choroid plexus. Description of a new instrument and preliminary report of results.

1935 CE

#4904

The clinical aspects of visceral neurology with special reference to the surgery of the sympathetic nervous system.

1936 CE

#4905

Essai d’un traitement chirurgical de certaines psychoses.

Prefrontal leucotomy (lobotomy). Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 1110-14. See also Egas Moniz's book Tentatives opératoires dans le traitement de certaines psychoses, Paris, 1936. His name was originall…

1936 CE

#4906

Prefrontal lobotomy in agitated depression. Report of a case.

See also the book by the same authors, Psychosurgery: Intelligence, emotion, and social behavior following prefrontal lobotomy for mental disorders. Springfield: Charles C Thomas, 1942. By the 1950s lobotomy was large…

1936 CE

#4907

The location of cerebral tumours by electro-encephalography.

1937 CE

#4908

Eine neue Operationsmethode bei Trigeminusneuralgie: Durchschneidung des Tractus spinalis trigemini.

Trigeminal tractotomy. See also Acta psychiat. neural. (Kbh.), 1938, Suppl. 17, 1-139.

1938 CE

#4909

First surgical sections, in man, of the lemniscus lateralis (pain-temperature path) at the brain stem, for the treatment of diffused rebellious pain.

1916 CE

#4910

Diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases of the spinal cord and its membranes.

Elsberg, American pioneer in neurosurgery, made valuable contributions to the surgery of the spinal cord. on tumours of the cord in 1925. His final work was Surgical diseases of the spinal cord, membranes, and nerve r…

1943 CE

#4911

Three types of nerve injury.

Seddon’s classification of nerve injuries.

1943 CE

#4912

Plasma clot and silk suture of nerves. 1. An experimental study of comparative tissue reaction.

Plasma clot nerve suture. Preliminary communication in Science, 1942, 95, 258.

1949 CE

#4914

Revascularization of the brain through establishment of a cervical arteriovenous fistula. Effects in children with mental retardation and convulsive disorders.

With C. F. McKhann and W. D. Belnap.

1563 CE

#4916

De praestigiis daemonum.

Weyer was the first European physician to take an empirical, scientific approach to the study of mental illness. At the height of the witchcraft delusion he argued that witches were mentally ill women who deserved hum…

1584 CE

#4917

The discoverie of witchcraft.

Scot identified as mentally ill a large group of people who had hitherto been considered to be involved in witchcraft.

1586 CE

#4918

A treatise of melancholie, containing the causes thereof.

First comprehensive description of depression in English. Bright also produced the first noteworthy geometrical system of shorthand, consisting of circles, half-circles, and straight lines (Characterie, London, 1588).

1782 CE–1786 CE

#4920

Observation on the nature, kinds, causes and prevention of insanity, lunacy, or madness. 2 vols.

Best historical account to the time. 2nd ed., 1806.

1793 CE–1794 CE

#4921

Della pazzia in genere, e in specie, trattato medico-analitico, con una centuri di osservatzioni. 3 vols.

Chiarugi was the first in Europe to abandon chains and fetters in a mental hospital. He required a case history for each patient, hygienic rooms with segregation of the sexes, no restraint beyond strait jacket and cot…

1801 CE

#4922

Traité médico-philosophique sur l’aliénation mentale ou la manie.

Pinel founded the French School of Psychiatry. He was among the first to treat the insane humanely; he dispensed with chains and placed his patients under the care of specially selected physicians. Garrison considered…

1803 CE

#4923

Rhapsodieen über die Anwendung der psychischen Curmethode auf Geisteszerrüttungen.

The versatile Reil, physician and physiologist, was an early advocate of humane treatment for the insane. He was instrumental in the establishment of the first journal devoted to mental disease – the Magazin f&u…

1812 CE

#4924

Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind.

The first American textbook on psychiatry, and, considering the state of that science in Rush’s time, one of the most noteworthy. It underwent four editions.

1813 CE

#4925

Tracts on Delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout.

Sutton named and described alcoholic delirium tremens, differentiating the condition from phrenitis. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1818 CE

#4926

Lehrbuch der Störungen des Seelenlebens.

Heinroth drew his psychology from the Bible and maintained that mental health was maintained only by piety and that sin engendered madness; for him treatment was by repentance and a return to the fold. English transla…

1835 CE

#4928

A treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind.

Prichard, better known for his work in the field of anthropology (No. 159), was the first to describe moral insanity. He described a syndrome he called incoherence or senile dementia. Alzheimer (No. 4956) may have des…

1845 CE

#4930

Die Pathologie und Therapie der psychischen Krankheiten.

Griesinger put an end to the moralistic theory of insanity as advanced by Heinroth. He was the first in Germany to abandon violence in the treatment of the insane; his book remained an authority on the subject for 30 …

1852 CE

#4931

Du délire des persécutions.

“Lasègue’s disease” – persecution mania.

1853 CE–1854 CE

#4932

Mémoire sur la folie circulaire.

Circular (manic-depressive) insanity first described.

1856 CE

#4933

The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints.

As early as 1839, Conolly treated the insane without any form of restraint at Hanwell Asylum, now St. Bernard’s Hospital. Facsimile reprint with introduction by R. Hunter and I. Macalpine, London, Dawsons, 1973.…

1858 CE

#4934

A manual of psychological medicine.

Bucknill and Tuke were both distinguished neurologists, and advocates of no restraint in the institutional treatment of mental patients. Their book was for many years the standard English work on psychological medicin…

1866 CE

#4936

Observations on an ethnic classification of idiots.

Langdon Down suggested that the physiognomical features of certain defectives enabled them to be arranged in ethnic groups; of these he differentiated Mongolian, Ethiopian, Caucasian, and American Indian. Such an ethn…

1846 CE

#4937

Traitement moral, hygiène et education des idiots…

Séguin was the first to outline a complete plan for the training of mental defectives. A pupil of Itard and Esquirol, he subsequently worked in America, where he published Idiocy: and its treatment by the physi…

1874 CE

#4938

Die Katatonie oder das Spannungsirresein, Eine klinische Form psychischer Krankheit.

In 1869 Kahlbaum suggested catatonia as a separate disease entity and in 1874 his classic monograph appeared. English translation, Baltimore, 1973. Digital facsimile of the 1874 edition from wellcomecollection.org at …

1879 CE

#4940

Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie auf klinischer Grundlage.

English translation, Philadelphia, 1905.

1883 CE

#4941

Compendium der Psychiatrie.

Later editions of this book were called Lehrbuch. The sixth edition is notable in that in it manic-depressive psychoses were first mentioned as such. Ninth edition in 1927. Kraepelin, Professor of Psychiatry successiv…

1884 CE

#4942

Psychiatrie. Klinik der Erkrankungen der Vorderhirns.

Meynert, Professor of Neurology at Vienna, made many contributions to the study of the cellular architecture of the brain, and is often considered the founder of cerebral cortex cytoarchitectonics. English translation…

1885 CE

#4943

Les maladies de la personnalité.

1886 CE

#4944

Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.

Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…

1887 CE

#4945

Disturbance of psychic activity in alcoholic paralysis.

“Korsakoff’s psychosis” or syndrome – alcoholic polyneuritis with loss and falsification of memory. A second paper on the subject in Ezhened. klin. Gaz., 1889, 9, 85, 115, 136, is translated in…

1887 CE

#4946

Ueber die Einwirking fieberhafter Erkrankungen auf Psychosen.

Wagner von Jauregg’s first studies of the effect of fevers upon psychotic conditions. See also No. 4806.

1892 CE

#4947

A dictionary of psychological medicine. 2 vols.

1894 CE–1900 CE

#4949

Grundriss der Psychiatrie in klinischen Vorlesungen.

Wernicke made valuable contributions to the subject of sensory aphasia, mind-blindness, and apraxia. He correlated all psychic action with the function of speech, each perversion being interpreted as showing a minus o…

1896 CE

#4950

Der psychologische Versuch in der Psychiatrie.

1899 CE

#4951

Lehrbuch der psychopathologischen Untersuchungsmethoden.

Sommer introduced new methods in psychopathological investigation.