Garrison's History of Neurology - Hardcover

Lawrence C. McHenry, Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039801261X ISBN 13: 9780398012618

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, 1969

Synopsis

Dr. McHenry is unusual among young neurologists in having cultivated an avid interest in the history of medicine ever since his student days. When he was a resident in training at Boston City Hospital, he delighted us with essays published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The history of neurology has been greatly neglected. The little-known text of the late Fielding Garrison was unique and long out of print. It began with an interesting discussion of the eternal dilemma of the ancients, the seat of the mind and of the soul, but was for the rest a compilation of information already available in Garrison's larger text on the history of medicine. The history of medicine has many facets. The recording of factual information of necessity takes a great part of the effort of the historian. In the last hundred years, and particularly the last fifty years, the acceleration of accumulation of factual information has become stupendous, particularly in neurology, where the proliferation of eponymous signs and syndromes has reached staggering proportions. With the lapse of time, the more important achievements stand in better perspective. Dr. McHenry has brought Garrison's history into the early years of the present century. But even more important is the development of ideas, the changing philosophies of nervous and mental action. One hopes that in later editions Dr.McHenry can attempt the parallel but more difficult task of delineating the changing patterns of neurological philosophy, a task not attempted again since Soury's monumental work at the turn of the century. Meanwhile, we welcome the present attractive volulne, which makes so much historical information readily available.

About this edition

• Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 039801261X
• ISBN 13: 9780398012618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 568