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Book The Falling Sickness     2nd Ed  Revised

Download or read book The Falling Sickness 2nd Ed Revised written by Owsei Temkin and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Falling Sickness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Owsei Temkin
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 1994-03
  • ISBN : 9780801848490
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book The Falling Sickness written by Owsei Temkin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thoroughly admirable and informative introduction to our knowledge of epilepsy in the Western world from antiquity to the early twentieth century." - American Scientist Owsei Temkin presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. First published in 1945 and thoroughly revised in 1971, this classic work by one of the history of medicine's most eminent scholars now returns to print available in both paperback and eBook formats.

Book The Falling Sickness

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  • Author : Owsei Temkin
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 1994-03-01
  • ISBN : 1421400537
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book The Falling Sickness written by Owsei Temkin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thoroughly admirable and informative introduction to our knowledge of epilepsy in the Western world from antiquity to the early twentieth century." - American Scientist Owsei Temkin presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. First published in 1945 and thoroughly revised in 1971, this classic work by one of the history of medicine's most eminent scholars now returns to print available in both paperback and eBook formats.

Book Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus

Download or read book Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus written by Frank W. Drislane, MD and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only comprehensive source of information on this frequently misdiagnosed problem, with information critical for physicians, ER and ICU doctors, and psychiatrists. An under-recognized condition that can potentially cause brain damage and even death, nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is an important clinical problem, occurring in about 25% of status epilepsy cases. Despite this prevalence, Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus is the first comprehensive clinical text to cover its diagnosis and management. The book progresses logically, beginning with chapters discussing the history and classification of NCSE, reflecting a contemporary understanding of developmental, syndromic, and clinical aspects. Following chapters discuss relevant epidemiology, electrophysiology, imaging and pathophysiology of NCSE, with supplementary sections devoted to psychiatric and behavioral aspects of NCSE and to the different diagnostic considerations of its frequently unusual behavioral presentations. Highlights include: An emphasis on diagnosis, management, and all pertinent clinical issues A heavily illustrated section on EEG interpretation in NCSE Contributions by the foremost international experts on NCSE Throughout, the book maintains a practical focus on recognizing the key signs and symptoms of this subtly presented and clinically challenging condition. This multidisciplinary volume will provide physicians, ER and ICU doctors, and psychiatrists with a comprehensive source of information and opinion on nonconvulsive status epilepticus.

Book Representing Epilepsy

Download or read book Representing Epilepsy written by Jeannette Stirling and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. Representing Epilepsy, the latest volume in LUP’s acclaimed Representations series, seeks to understand the epileptic body as a literary or figurative device intelligible beyond a medical framework. Jeannette Stirling argues that neurological discourse from the late-nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century is as much forged by the cultural conditions and representational politics of the times as it is by the science of western medicine. Along the way she explores narratives of epilepsy depicting ideas of social disorder, tainted bloodlines, sexual deviance, spiritualism and criminality in works as diverse as David Copperfield and The X Files. This path-breaking book will be required reading for cultural disability studies scholars and for anyone seeking greater understanding of this common condition. ‘Representing Epilepsy offers a clever exploration of the cultural history of this condition, based on an effective interdisciplinary approach. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students in the field of Medical Humanities, as well as to all those involved in the care of people with epilepsy, who wish to improve their understanding of the socio-cultural repercussions of the condition.’ Maria Vaccarella, King’s College London

Book The Neuropsychiatry of Epilepsy

Download or read book The Neuropsychiatry of Epilepsy written by Michael Trimble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews and explores the interface between epilepsy and behaviour disorders, giving both diagnostic and management perspectives.

Book History of British Neurology

Download or read book History of British Neurology written by Frank Clifford Rose and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HISTORY OF BRITISH NEUROLOGY by F Clifford Rose (Imperial College School of Medicine, UK) Diseases of the nervous system are a relatively small but vitally important part of medicine. There was no scientific basis for diagnosis or treatment until the seventeenth century when Dr Thomas Willis (16211675) and his team tackled anatomy by dissection of the nervous system, physiology by animal experiments and pathology by post-mortem analysis. It was Willis who first used the word "neurology" and his team, who were among the founders of the Royal Society, included Christopher Wren who, besides being famous as an architect of London's churches, drew the first modern diagram of the human brain. Developments in our knowledge of the nervous system in the following centuries, and the unique importance of clinical neurology, became globally recognised through the work of Whytt, Heberden, Hughlings Jackson, Gowers and many others. The work and discoveries of these eminent specialists were extended with the introduction of such neurosciences as neurophysiology, neuropathology and neuro-radiology, and this is the first comprehensive account of a battle with the unknown by determined practitioners.

Book Electropharmacology

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  • Author : Hendrik Keyzer
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 1990-09-25
  • ISBN : 9780849354090
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Electropharmacology written by Hendrik Keyzer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1990-09-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary book covers the extremely broad subject of electropharmacology-defined here as the application of principles and methods of electrochemistry to biological topics associated with the action of drugs. It focuses on the physical principles of the movement of electrical charges across interfaces in pharmacological phenomena. It also covers drugs and the electrical procedures which modify a natural process having an electrochemical basis or component. This outstanding report studies the pharmacologically important properties and effects by electrochemical methods, the electrochemical alternatives or adjuncts to drug therapy, and the pharmacology involved. Easy to read and understand, this is an ideal reference for all researchers and practitioners of pharmacology and related fields.

Book Epilepsy

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  • Author : Daniel King
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2011-07-12
  • ISBN : 1459623835
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Epilepsy written by Daniel King and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People diagnosed with epilepsy face many difficulties and lifestyle changes, but a proper understanding of the disease is a vital first step toward maintaining a normal life. Written in simple terms, this invaluable resource answers commonly asked questions about epilepsy and explains how it is diagnosed and treated, both with medications and ot...

Book The End of Epilepsy

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  • Author : Dieter Schmidt
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-08-18
  • ISBN : 0191038733
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book The End of Epilepsy written by Dieter Schmidt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epilepsy is more than just a physical condition, the fact of simply having epileptic seizures, it has cultural, geographic and historical meaning and significance which go beyond that of a neurological disorder, and which defy a single perspective. The End of Epilepsy? is a beautifully illustrated, authoritative, and engaging history of medical developments during the modern era of epilepsy, which began with the introduction of Bromides and Hughlings-Jacksons definition of epilepsy in 1860. This thought-provoking book comprehensively covers the definitions of and the attitudes to epilepsy over the past 150 years, and describes the bureaucracies surrounding the condition. It explores the technological advances, and the different management techniques, with antiepileptic drugs and surgery, which have been applied to epilepsy up to the present day. After presenting an overview both of the advances and improvements made, and also of the dark side which has cast shadows over medical and social progress, the authors then critically examine on-going research into new treatments for epilepsy, and provide an insight into the complex underpinnings of scientific and medical practice. They look forward to a time when the condition will no longer be, as Temkin put it, a paradigm of the suffering of both body and soul in disease.

Book Status Epilepticus

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  • Author : Frank W. Drislane
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2007-10-28
  • ISBN : 1592599451
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Status Epilepticus written by Frank W. Drislane and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panel of senior clinicians critically reviews the many forms of status epilepticus (SE), their causes, manifestations, methods of diagnosis, and appropriate treatments. The emphasis is on the disease as encountered by the clinician in the field and the importance of correct recognition and diagnosis. The authors provide for each form of SE the underlying genetic, biological, and developmental background, the pathophysiological processes, as well as the precipitating factors that lead to an episode. For the difficult problem of diagnosing nonconvulsive SE, they offer detailed syndrome classifications, differential diagnoses, descriptions of seizure "imitators," notes on unusual behavioral and cognitive manifestations, and carefully delineated clinical presentations. Additional highlights include striking EEG reproductions that provide classic examples of patients in SE, SE in very young children and neonates, and an analysis of the cellular physiology and processes occurring during SE.

Book Beware the Evil Eye Volume 3

Download or read book Beware the Evil Eye Volume 3 written by John H. Elliott and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evil Eye is mentioned repeatedly throughout the Old Testament, Israel's parabiblical writings, and New Testament, with a variety of terms and expressions. The Old Testament (Greek Septuagint) contains no less than fourteen text segments involving some twenty explicit references to the Evil Eye (Deut 15:9; 28:54, 56; Prov 23:6; 28:22; Tob 4:7, 16; Sir 14:3, 6, 8, 9, 10; 18:18; 31:13; 37:11; Wis 4:12; 4 Macc 1:26; 2:15; Ep Jer 69/70). At least three further texts are also likely implied references to an Evil Eye (1 Sam 2:29, 32; 18:9), with some other texts as more distant possibilities. The Evil Eye is mentioned also in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the writings of Philo and Josephus--all of which are discussed in the following pages. Evil Eye belief and practice continued in the early Jesus movement. Jesus mentions the Evil Eye on more than one occasion (Matt 6:22-23; Luke 11:33-36; Mark 7:22). Paul makes explicit and implicit mention of the Evil Eye in his letter to the Galatians (3:1; 4:12-20). Possible implicit references to the Evil Eye are also examined. Both the common and the distinctive features of biblical Evil Eye belief are identified, along with its operation on multiple levels (biological/physiological, psychological, economic, social, and moral) and its serving a variety of purposes. The numerous references to the Evil Eye in Israel's rabbinic writings and those of postbiblical Christianity (second-sixth centuries CE), together with the material evidence from this period, are examined in volume 4.

Book New Research on Epilepsy and Behavior

Download or read book New Research on Epilepsy and Behavior written by Keith J. Hollaway and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this important book touch upon clinical neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, and neuroimaging. They include localisation of ictal and postictal behaviours; neuroendocrine aspects of epilepsy; psychiatric and psychosocial aspects of epilepsy; behavioural aspects of epilepsy surgery; cognitive and affective effects of seizure treatment and functional imaging and animal models.

Book Liberal Hearts and Coronets

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  • Author : Veronica Strong-Boag
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2015-02-26
  • ISBN : 1442616504
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Liberal Hearts and Coronets written by Veronica Strong-Boag and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish aristocrats John Campbell Gordon (1847–1934) and Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon (1857–1939), known as the Aberdeens, rejected both revolution and reaction in their political careers. The aristocratic progressivism and egalitarian marriage of these fervent liberals confounded both contemporaries and historians. John, as viceroy of Ireland and governor-general of Canada, was a notable ally of feminists, workers, and Irish Home Rulers. Ishbel, his viceregal companion and the long-time president of the International Council of Women, was a liberal feminist and Home Ruler whose commitments stirred up even more controversy. Superbly written and informed by decades of research, Liberal Hearts and Coronets is the first biography to treat John Campbell Gordon as seriously as his better-known wife. Examining the Aberdeens’ remarkable careers as landlords, philanthropists, and international progressives, Veronica Strong-Boag casts the twilight of the British aristocracy in an entirely new light.

Book The Disorders

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  • Author : Howard S. Friedman
  • Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
  • Release : 2001-07-23
  • ISBN : 9780122678059
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book The Disorders written by Howard S. Friedman and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard S. Friedman

Book Clio Medica  Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae  Vol  7

Download or read book Clio Medica Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae Vol 7 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Représentations des Soins Donnés à Philoctète /Danielle Gourevitch --Das mittelalterliche Leprosarium Melaten bei Aachen in der Diözese Lüttich (1230-1550) /Egon Schmitz-Cliever --Sauvages, Whytt and the Motion of the Heart: Aspects of Eighteenth Century Animism /R.K. French --Die Entwicklung der Teratologie seit dem 17. Jahrhundert und ihr Einfluß auf die klinische Medizin /Erich Hintzsche --La Valeur de l'oeuvre scientifique de Amatus Lusitanus, quatre siècles après sa mort /A. Tavares De Sousa --Germ theories in medicine prior to 1870: further comments on continuity in science /Richard Harrison Shryock --Texts and Documents /Luigi Belloni --Documenti su G.A. Brambilla quale “Leibchirurg” dell'imperatore Giuseppe II /Luigi Belloni --Vier Briefe von Constantin von Economo (1876 - 1931) /Jean Théodoridès and Théodore Vetter --Neue Dokumente zum Streit Haller - van Swieten /Erna Leksy --News and Notes --In Memoriam Richard H. Shryock /Erwin H. Ackerknecht --Valeriu L. Bologa (1892-1971) /Vasile Manoliu --International Academy of the History of Medicine: Election Results 1971 /Heinrich Schipperges --The University of Chicago - The Morris Fishbein Center --The C.D. O'Malley International Symposium on the History of Medicine in England in the Seventeenth Century /Allen G. Debus --Das Batthyaneum /Constantin Barth --WiederöFfnung des Medizinhistorischen Museums der Universität Zürich /H.M. Koelbing --Van Swieten-Symposium of the University of Vienna, 8th-10th May 1972 --IXth International Congress of Neo-Hippocratic Medicine --News From Spain and Germany --Corrigendum --Book Reviews --Modern Methods in the History of Medicine. Edit. by EDWIN CLARKE. London: Athlone Press (New York: Oxford University Press) 1971. /Lester S. King --Albrecht Hallers Tagebücher seiner Reisen nach Deutschland, Holland und England. 1723-1727. Neue verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage mit Anmerkungen: Herausgeg. von ERICH HINTZSCHE. Berner Beiträge zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften. N.F. Bd. 4. Bern - Stuttgart: Hans Huber Verlag 1971. 111 S., 9 Abbildungen. /Erna Lesky --Geschichte und Ikonographie des endemischen Kropfes und Kretinismus. F. MERKE: Bern: Hans Huber Publishers, 1971. 353 pp., III. Linen, DM 108,-. /D. De Moulin --Medizingeschichte in unserer Zeit. Festgabe für Edith Heischkel-Artelt und Walter Artelt zum 65. Geburtstag. Herausgegeben von HANS-HEINZ EULNER, GUNTER MANN, GERT PREISER, ROLF WINAU und OTTO WINKELMANN. Ferdinand Enke Verlag Stuttgart 1971, Balacron, 490S., 11 Abb., DM.90,-. /M.L. Portmann --The Battle against heart disease by P.E. BALDRY, Cambridge University Press 1971. /Kenneth D. Keele --Die Entwicklung der medizinischen Spezialfächer an den Universitäten des deutschen Sprachgebietes. HANS-HEINZ EULNER, Studien zur Medizingeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts IV ("Neunzehntes Jahrhundert, Forschungsunternehmen der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Arbeitskreis Medizingeschichte). Ferdinand Enke Verlag Stuttgart 1970. Ln., 722 S., 44 Uebersichtstafeln, DM. 108,-. /H. Buess --Psychiatry and its History. Methodological Problems in Research. Edited by GEORGE MORA, M.D. and JEANNE L. BRAND, Ph.D. Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield, Illinois. U.S.A. 1970. /Hans H. Walser --Gerard van Swieten and his world, 1700-1772. FRANK T. BRECHKA. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1970, pp. 171, illus. /R. Heller --Oskar Heinroth, Vater der Verhaltensforschung (1871-1945): KATHARINA HEINROTH, mit einem Geleitwort von Konrad Lorenz. Grosse Naturforscher Band 35, Stuttgart, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 1971. 257 S., 27, 50 DM. /Eduard Seidler --Microbiology and the Spontaneous Generation Debate during the 1870's. GLENN VANDERVLIET 1 vol. 138 + 13 p., 4 pls. Lawrence (Kansas) Coronado Press, 1971. /Jean Théodoridès --Geschichte der Kinderheilkunde: ALBRECHT PEIPER. In: Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde, hrsg. von Hans Opitz und Franz Schmid. Band 1/1, Heidelberg-New York 1971, XXIV, 904 S. DM 345,- (S.1-30). /Eduard Seidler --The Legacy of Philippe Pinel. An Inquiry into Thought on Mental Alienation: WALTHER RIESE: Springer Publishing Company, Inc. New York, 1969. /Hans H. Walser --Ärzte um Karl Marx: Arbeit eines Studentenkollektives der medizinischen Faklutät an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin unter Leitung von Helmut Dessler. Berlin, VEB. Volk und Gesundheit 1970. 147 S., 10.00 M. /Eduard Seidler --Safavid Medical Practice, or The Practice of Medicine, Surgery and Gynaecology in Persia between 1500 A.D. and 1750 A.D.: CYRIL ELGOOD, Luzac and Company Ltd, London 1970, pp. 302, £ 5, 50. /Hans H. Lauer --Die Inschriften des Asklepieions. CH. HABICHT. Altertümer von Pergamon, hrsg. E. Boehringer, Bd. VIII 3, XII u. 202 S., 51 Tafeln, Berlin 1969 (W. de Gruyter). Das Basler Arztrelief. E. BERGER. Studien zum griechischen Grab- und Votivrelief um 500 v.Chr. und zur vorhippokratischen Medizin. Veröffentlichungen des Antikenmuseums Basel, Bd. 1, 202 S., 167 Abb., Basel 1970, Archiiologischer Verlag. /Fridolf Kudlien --“PHASIANUS”. Studien zur Kulturgeschichte des Fasans: Christian Wilhelm Hünemörder. Diss. phil. Bonn, 1970. 569 S. /Helmut Leitner --Contributors to this Issue --Back Matter --Ammianus and Alexandria /Vivian Nutton --Louis et la Méthode numérique /M. Bariéty --The Paracelsians and the Chemists: the Chemical Dilemma in Renaissance Medicine /Allen G. Debus --On the Use of Military Metaphor in Western Medical Literature: The bellum contra morbum of Thomas Campanella (1568-1639) /L.J. Rather and J.B. Frerichs --Early Nineteenth Century Ophthalmological Clinics in Egypt /Laverne Kuhnke --Texts and Documents --An English Translation of the Hitherto Untranslated Part of Rokitansky's Einleitung to volume 1 of the Handbuch der allgemeinen Pathologie (1846), with a Bibliography of Rokitansky's Published Works /L.J. Rather and Eva R. Rohl --News and Notes --In Memoriam Jose Luis Molinari 1898-1971 /Francisco Guerra --Eine Sozialgeschichte Der Medizin Im Curriculum Spanischer Hochschulen /Heinrich Schipperges --News of Our Members --Pawlow-Studienausgabe im Verlag Kindler --Honorary M.D. of the University of Vienna for Anna Freud --Book Reviews --The Falling Sickness. The History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology: OSWEI TEMKIN. The Johns Hopkins Press. Second Edition Revised. 467 pages. USD 15.00 /Francis Schiller --The Trade in Lunacy: A Study of Private Madhouses in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: WILLIAM L. PARRYJONES. XVIII + 330 pp, XI plates, 9 figures, 37 tables. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1972. £.4.75 ;5.00. /Dieter Jetter --La médicine égyptienne au temps des Pharaons. By Dr. ANGE-PIERRE LECA. Published by Roger Dacosta, Paris. 1971. 486 p., Ill. /Kenneth D. Keele --Jiří Procháska, 1749-1820: Základy fysiologie člověeka II., Vídeň 1797. Prěložil a poznámkami opatrǐl MUC. KAMIL RESLER' Grundlagen der Physiologie des Menschen. Wien 1797, 2. Teil, übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen von MUC. Kamil Resler. Prag: Academia Verlag 1971. /Norbert Dukaz --The Pre-Columbian Mind. FRANCISCO GUERRA. London - New York, Seminar Press, 1971, 15,5 × 23,5 cm, XVI + 335 p., £ 4.50. /M.D. Grmek --Peter Ludvig Panums videnskabelige indsats: ALBERT GJEDDE. Bibliotek for Laeger København 1971. 256 S., Ill. /Vilh. Möller-Christensen --Erwin H. Ackerknecht: Medicine and Ethnology Selected Essays. Edited by H.H. WALSER and H.M. KOELBING. Verlag Hans Huber, Bern: 1971. 195 pages, paperbound. Fr. 21. - /DM 26.- /Charles C. Hughes --Opere Biologiche di Aristotele. A cura di DIEGO LANZA E MARIO VEGETTI. Classicidella Scienza. Torino 1971. 1314 S. /Helmut Leitner --Contributors to this Issue --Back Matter.