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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.
Dates: 1879 - 1880

Walter Freeman autobiography

 Collection
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