The falling sickness : a history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology / Owsei Temkin.

  • Temkin, Owsei, 1902-2002.
Date:
1994
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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Physical description

xv, 467 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. 399-443) and index

Contents

Antiquity -- Epilepsy: the sacred disease -- Epilepsy in ancient medical science -- The Middle Ages -- Epilepsy: the falling sickness -- Medieval medical theories -- The Renaissance -- Theological, philosophical, and social aspects -- Broadening experience and changing theory -- The great systems and the Period of Enlightenment -- The great systems -- The Enlightenment -- The Nineteenth Century (1800-1861) -- First period: 1800-1833 -- Second period: 1833-1861 -- The Nineteenth Century-the age of Hughlings Jackson -- Jackson's forerunners -- John Hughlings Jackson -- The end of the falling sickness?

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: CMB
Copy 2 Supplier/Donor: Publisher

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ISBN

  • 0801848490