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Introduction xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Anatomical and neurophysiological phenomena 1
1. Andreas Vesalius: the origins of anatomy 3
2. The localisation of function: early neuroanatomy
and neurophysiology 14
3. Convolutions and asymmetries of the brain 22
4. The fissure of Rolando 26
5. The fissure of Sylvius 29
6. Robert Whytt and the stretch reflex 33
7. Notes on the life and work of Marshall Hall 37
8. Erb, Westphal and the tendon reflexes 44
9. Lockhart Clarke's column 48
10. The Schwann cell 51
11. Wallerian degeneration 55
12. Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow and myelin 59
13. Remak, father and son 62
Aspects of cerebral disorders 67
14. Aphasia or aphemia 69
15. Early concepts of aphasia; the Broca-Dax
controversy 70
16. Development of concepts of aphasia 76
17. Aphasia and Wernicke's arc 81
18. Paul Broca and aphasia 84
19. Von Monakow and diaschisis 90
20. Gerstmann's syndrome 92
21. Early descriptions of sleep paralysis 95
22. Cobb's views on functional illness 98
Demnentias 101
22. Alzheimer's disease 103
24. Pick's disease 108
25. Binswanger's "encephalitis subcorticalis
chronica progressiva" 113
26. Alois Alzheimer on Binswanger's disease 116
27. Huntington's chorea 118
Headaches 123
28 Edward Liveing's nerve storms in migraine 125
29 Historical aspects of migraine 138
30 Cervicogenic headache: an early description 156
31 Cluster headache 159
32 Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond 164
33 Hutchinson: an early description of cranial arteritis 168
34 Samuel-Auguste Tissot and migraine 170
35 Nicolaus Petreus Tulpius on headaches 174
3t Gerhard van Swieten and episodic cluster headache 177
Epilepsy and related disorders 179
37. Early accounts of epilepsy 181
38. Sir Victor Horsley: surgery for epilepsy 191
35. Robert Bentley Todd and Todd's paralysis 194
40. West's syndrome: hypsarrhythmic infantile spasms 197
Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus 199
41. Lumbar puncture 201
42. The cerebral ventricles: seat of the soul 206
43. Early treatment of hydrocephalus 209
44. Domenico Cotugno, C.S.F., and the origins
of sciatica 211
Strokes and vascular diseases 213
45. Dechambre and lacunes 215
46. Dejerine and Roussy: the thalamic syndrome 217
47. Brown-Sequard: description of cerebellar
haemorrhage; contributions to endocrinology 221
48. The circle of Willis 228
49. Wallenberg's syndrome 233
50. Raynaud's phenomenon 237
Ocular disorders 241
51. Duane's syndrome 243
52. The Marcus Gunn pupil 245
53. A note on heterochromia iridis 248
54. The Holmes-Adie tonic pupil and Hughlings
Jackson 249
55. Claude Bernard-Horner's syndrome and
Edward Selleck Hare 252
Cranial nerve disorders 257
56. Lucja Frey and the "auriculotemporal syndrome" 259
57. Melkersson's syndrome 261
58. Meniere's disease 263
59. Bell's or Friedreich's palsy 267
60. Sir Charles Bell: a biographical note 272
61. John Locke and the trigeminal neuralgia
of the Countess of Northumberland 280
Diseases of the spine, the spinal cord,
and radiculopathies 285
62. Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord 287
63. Multiple sclerosis: some British contributions 290
64. Quadruplegia and cervical dislocation in the
Edwin Smith papyrus 294
65. Samuel Richardson and Forestier's disease 297
66. Sir William Osler on tabes dorsalis
(locomotor ataxia) 300
67. Robert Bentley Todd and locomotor ataxia 303
68. Lathyrism 306
Ne aralgias and polyneuropathies 311
69. Octave Landry and the Guillain-Barre-Strohl
syndrome 313
70. Silas Weir Mitchell and causalgia 318
71. Bontius and Tulp on beriberi polyneuritis 322
72. Howard Henry Tooth and Charcot-Marie-Tooth
disease 324
73. Robert Graves and multiple neuritis 332
74. Sir Henry Head: a note on herpes zoster 335
Physical signs 339
75 A brief history of the reflex hammer 341
76 A brief history of the tuning fork 347
77 Babinski's sign 352
78 Cheyne-Stokes respiration 355
79 Oppenheim's sign 359
80 J.-J. Forst and Lasegue's sign 362
81 Kernig and Brudzinski 365
82. Lhermitte's sign 367
83. Prevost's sign or Vulpian's law: conjugate
deviation of the eyes 370
84. Romberg's sign 373
85. Hoffmann and Tinel's sign of formication 375
86. Gowers' sign 378
Genetic, developmental and congenital disorders 381
87. Down's syndrome 383
88. Tay-Sachs disease 386
89. Little's disease 389
90. Bourneville's tuberous sclerosis: "When the
cat is away..." 391
91. Arnold Chiari, or Cruveilhier-Cleland-Chiari
malformation 395
Movement disorders 399
92. Botulinum toxin 401
93. Wilson's disease 404
94. Athetosis and William Alexander Hammond,
a founder of American neurology 413
95. Parkinson's disease 417
96. The Lewy body 429
97. The subthalamic nucleus and Jules Bernard Luys 434
98. Baron Constantin von Economo's encephalitis
lethargica 437
99. Thomas Sydenham and Richard Bright on chorea 440
100. Samuel Jones Gee and stereotypic movements
caused by apomorphia 448
101. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome 451
102. Romberg on Ekbom's restless legs syndrome 454
Neuromuscular diseases 457
103. Myasthenia gravis 459
104. Some contributions of Duchenne de Boulogne 463
105. Steinert's disease: dystrophia myotonica 469
106. Notes on tetanus: Hippocrates and Aretaeus 473
Miscellaneous 477
107. The Hippocratic oath 479
108. The caduceus and the Aesculapian staff 481
109. Galen of Pergamum: neurological notes 485
110. Walter Brown: early intravenous transfusion 493
111. Ammon's horn and the hippocampus 495
112 Clinical thermometers 497
113 Acromegaly (Pierre Marie's disease) 501
114 Who discovered insulin? 510
115 Who discovered aspirin? 513
116 Bromides in epilepsy 517
117 Harvey Cushing 524
118 Armand Trousseau, physician and neurologist 528
119 Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and phagocytes 548
120 Sir James Paget 550
121 John and James Parkinson on appendicitis 556
122 The origins of syphilis 558
123 Charcot joints 563
124 Francis Bacon: father of the scientific experiment 566
125 Sir Charles Symonds 569
126 Derek Denny-Brown 573
Illnesses of the famous, and some medical truants 577
127. Peter Mark Roget and his thesaurus 579
128. Chekhov: playwright and physician 582
129. William Brownrigg: a doctor's adventures
with physics 585
130. The emperor with the shaking head: Claudius'
movement disorder 588
131. The madness of King George III 592
132. Johann Jakob Wepfer on cerebral haemorrhage,
with a note on the apoplexy of Malpighi 597
133. Dr Samuel Johnson: a victim of Gilles de la
Tourette's syndrome 602
134. Freud's migraine, and contributions to neurology 615
135. Wegener's granulomatosis 622
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Neurology History, Neurology Anecdotes, Eponyms, Neurology history Anecdotes, Neurology history Collected Works, Eponyms Anecdotes, Eponyms Collected Works, Nervous System Diseases history Anecdotes, Nervous System Diseases history Collected Works