Brain, mind and medicine : essays in eighteenth-century neuroscience

Section A: Introduction Introduction Harry Whitaker, C.U.M. Smith, and Stanley Finger Chronology C.U.M. Smith Section B: Background Introduction The Editors 1: Brain and Mind in the ‘Long’ Eighteenth Century C.U.M. Smith 2: Enlightening Neuroscience: Microscopes and Microscopy in the Eighteenth Century Brian J. Ford 3: Corpus Curricula: Medical Education and the Voluntary Hospital Movement Jonathan Reinarz 4: Some Thoughts on the Medical Milieu in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century as Reflected in the Life and Activities of James Parkinson (1755–1824) Christopher Gardner-Thorpe Section C: The Nervous System Introduction The Editors 5: John Hunter’s Contributions to Neuroscience James L. Stone, James T. Goodrich, and George R. Cybulski 6: William Cullen (1710–1790) and Robert Whytt (1714–1766) on the Nervous System .Julius Rocca 7: 1710: The Introduction of Experimental Nervous System Physiology and Anatomy by François Pourfour du Petit Lawrence Kruger and Larry W. Swanson 8: Irritable Glue: The Haller–Whytt Controversy on the Mechanism of Muscle Contraction Eugenio Frixione 9: The Taming of the Electric Ray: From a Wonderful and Dreadful “Art” to “Animal Electricity” and “Electric Battery”Marco Piccolino 10: Luigi Galvani, Physician, Surgeon, Physicist: From Animal Electricity to Electro-Physiology Miriam Focaccia and Raffaella Simili Section D: Brain and Behaviour Introduction The Editors 11: The Vision of William Porterfield Nicholas J. Wade 12: David Hartley’s Neural Vibrations and Psychological Associations Robert B. Glassman and Hugh W. Buckingham 13: Charles Bonnet’s Neurophilosophy Harry A. Whitaker and Yves Turgeon 14: Swedenborg and Localization Theory Ulf Norrsell Section E: Medical Theories and Applications Introduction The Editors 15: Neuroscience in the Work of Boerhaave and Haller Peter J. Koehler 16: Apoplexy: Changing Concepts in the Eighteenth Century Catherine E. Storey viii Contents 17: Benjamin Franklin and the Electrical Cure for Disorders of the Nervous System Stanley Finger 18: Gentleman’s Magazine, the Advent of Medical Electricity, and Disorders of the Nervous System Hannah Sypher Locke and Stanley Finger 19: Therapeutic Attractions: Early Applications of Electricity to the Art of Healing . Paola Bertucci 20: John Wesley on the Estimation and Cure of Nervous Disorders James G. Donat 21: Franz Anton Mesmer and the Rise and Fall of Animal Magnetism: Dramatic Cures, Controversy, and Ultimately a Triumph for the Scientific Method Douglas J. Lanska and Joseph T. Lanska 22: Hysteria in the Eighteenth Century Diana Faber Section F: Cultural Consequences Introduction. 23: Technological Metaphors and the Anatomy of Representations in Eighteenth-Century French Materialism and Dualist Mechanism Timo Kaitaro 24: Explorations of the Brain, Mind and Medicine in the Writings of Jonathan Swift Marjorie Perlman Lorch 25: Temperament and the Long Shadow of Nerves in the Eighteenth Century George Rousseau Index