Contributions

  • Critchley, Eileen A. - Contributor

Publication

1998 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

57,000 words, Guess

Page Count

228 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC616.8/0092
  • DDCB
  • LCCRC339.52.J3 C75 1998
and 1 more
  • LCCRC339.52.J3C75 1998

Description

"This book traces the life and scientific career of Dr. John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911), the English physician who pioneered the development of neurology as a medical specialty during the reign of Queen Victoria. Jackson made a number of scientific discoveries in several areas of higher nervous activity and language, and contributed greatly to the study of various types of epilepsy. He isolated the form of epilepsy associated with localized convulsive seizures, known as Jacksonian epilepsy. His research on epilepsy stretched across a broad spectrum and included uncinate attacks, intellectual aurae, and many other manifestations, which are now collectively covered by the term "temporal lobe epilepsy." He was also among the first to recognize the pattern of disease of the cerebellum." "Neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, pathologists, neuroscientists, residents and medical students will find this book a source of inspiration, and will relish its rare description of medicine in 19th century England."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

NeurologyBiographyPhysiciansNeurologistsNeurology -- biographyNeurologists, biographyJackson, J. Hughlings 1835-1911

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