| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-213) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; 1. The Jackson Family Background; 2. Maternal Ancestry -- the Hughlings; 3. Early Education and Life As a Medical Student; 4. Leaving Yorkshire for London; 5. The Cholera Epidemic in London, 1862; 6. First Neurological Papers; 7. Herbert Spencer, Evolution and Dissolution, and the Hierarchy of the Nervous System; 8. The Epilepsies; 9. Jackson's Writings on the Falling Sickness Reviewed; 10. Jackson As Morbid Anatomist; 11. The Cerebellum; 12. Aphasia: The Early Researches of Broca and Jackson; 13. Further Work on Aphasia; 14. Jackson's Final Writings on Aphasiology. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jackson, J. Hughlings (John Hughlings), 1835-1911.
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Jackson, J. Hughlings (John Hughlings), 1835-1911. |
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Jackson, J. Hughlings, 1835-1911 Jackson, John Hughlings. |
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Jackson, John Hughlings, (1835-1911) |
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Jackson, John Hughlings. |
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Neurologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Neurologists. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Neurology. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1850-1910 |
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Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Critchley, Eileen A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Critchley, Macdonald. John Hughlings Jackson. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (DLC) 97042711 |
| ISBN |
1423738284 (electronic book) |
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9781423738282 (electronic book) |
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1602563098 |
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9781602563094 |
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9780195123395 (acid-free paper) |
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0195123395 (acid-free paper) |
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1280471468 |
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9781280471469 |
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0195123395 (acid-free paper) |
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