Lectures Illustrative of Certain Local Nervous Affections.

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown Green, & Longman, - 1837.,

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Author

Brodie (Sir Benjamin C.)

Publishers

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown Green, & Longman,, 1837.

Keyword

MEDICINE PSYCHIATRY MENTAL DISORDER MENTAL HEALTH MADNESS LUNACY, INSANITY INSANE LUNATICS

Description

First edition, 8vo (225 x 140 mm), iv, 88pp., faint library stamp to title page, inner hinges shaken orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut. ìA surgeon by profession, Brodie was often called upon to treat neurotic or hysterical patients who complained of somatic ailments, such facial neuralgia, joint pains or paralysis, in the absence of any organic disease. In the ëLecturesí, Brodie adopted the original approach of discussing types of symptoms rather than particular diseases, distinguishing the manifestations of organic afflictions from those of hysterical origin, and giving the first systematic account of the diagnosis and treatment of pain and paralysis in the absence of local organic disease. He also gave the first description of ëoedËme bleuí, the swelling and cyanosis of extremities during hysterical paralysis.îóHook & Norman. Provenance: Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Hook & Norman, Haskell F. Norman Library I, 346; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 860-64.