Nervous System Diseases
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
James Nelson Miller notes on lectures from the College of Physicians and Surgeons
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/060
Scope and Contents
One volume of undated lectures, circa 1879-1880, delivered by Francis Delafield, on pathology, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment of neurological disorders and diseases of liver and stomach. Subject index included.
One volume of lectures delivered by James Woods McLane at College of Physicians and Surgeons, on pregnancy, labor, delivery, and post-natal care with accounts of complications of labor and pregnancy-related illnesses. Subject index included. Lectures generally undated.
One volume of lectures delivered by James Woods McLane at College of Physicians and Surgeons, on pregnancy, labor, delivery, and post-natal care with accounts of complications of labor and pregnancy-related illnesses. Subject index included. Lectures generally undated.
Dates:
1879 - 1880
Walter Freeman autobiography
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 2/014-02
Scope and Contents
Unbound typescript autobiography of Walter Freeman, written 1961-1970, discussing Freeman’s life, Keen
and Freeman families, his father, Walter J. Freeman, and Freeman’s work in neurology, neuropathology,
psychosurgery, and schizophrenia. Notable subjects are: Freeman’s work and disagreement with James W.
Watts on prefrontal and transorbital lobotomy; the second International Neurological Congress (1935);
Freeman’s follow-up studies of lobotomy patients; establishment of the El Camino Hospital...
Dates:
1961 - 1970
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