Lectures on Localization in Diseases of the Brain

by Jean-Martin Charcot, Edward Payson Fowler (Translator)

This illustrated medical volume was published in 1878.

A 5-STAR REVIEW-
Reviewer: pennysanz - - October 29, 2008
Subject: Historical Resource - Jean Marie Charcot
This book approaches some etenally askes questions about brain funtion and personality. At this historical moment technology and surgery in brain lesions is newest science frame. The implications of their approaches and observations, first surgically offered, being born new views for Psychology and Medicine, at last helped for stablish edges between two different sciences of mind.
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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
No excuse is required for contributions to medical litera-
ture which are calculated to increase exactitude of expres-
sion, ideas, and knowledge, thereby assisting to elevate
medical Art to the higher plane of Science.

These lectures are a bold example of that cast, as in-
deed are all of Charcot's teachings and writings.

It is too late to introduce our distinguished author to
the medical profession, for wherever medicine is taught
as a science his works are already known and prized, and
have been translated into nearly every modern language.
This, however, is the first volume which has been pub
lished in this country.

Charcot's superstructures are always built with great
care and reserve upon the secure basis of induction, though
he is none the less resplendent in the rich harvest of de-
duction which naturally follows.

The translator cannot refrain from expressing his con-
viction that the perfecting of medical knowledge depends
mainly upon those investigators of which Charcot is so
brilliant and so sound a representative.

New York, July, 1878.
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Contents:

FIRST LECTURE.
Localization in Cerebral Diseases

SECOND LECTURE.
Structure of the Gray Substance of the Brain

THIRD LECTURE.
Considerations upon the Normal Structure of the Gray Substance
of the Convolutions

FOURTH LECTURE.
Parallel between Spinal and Cerebral Lesions

FIFTH AND SIXTH LECTURES.
Arterial Circulation in the Brain

SEVENTH LECTURE.
Circulation in the Central Masses (Gray Ganglia and the Internal
Capsule)

EIGHTH AND NINTH LECTURES.
Central Arteries. — Isolated Lesions of the Gray Ganglia

TENTH LECTURE.
Cerebral Hemianaesthesia (Continued). — Crossed Amblyopia. — Lateral Hemicipia

ELEVENTH LECTURE.
Origin of the Cerebral Portion of the Optic Nerves

TWELFTH LECTURE.
Secondary Degeneration

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Published July 23, 2010

About the author

Jean-Martin Charcot was a neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He worked on hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria patient Louise Augustine Gleizes. Charcot is known as "the founder of modern neurology", and his name has been associated with at least 15 medical eponyms, including various conditions sometimes referred to as Charcot diseases.

Alternative spelling of his name:
Sharko, Zh. M., 1825-1893