Stories
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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The man who remembers everything
Tilney1 can remember his life in minute detail, but can’t control the incessant intrusion of thoughts and images from the past. As cuts to mental health services isolate him more and more, a crisis approaches.
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The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
Catalogue
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Cardiovascular physiology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / [Jerome Joseph Bylebyl].
Bylebyl, Jerome J. (Jerome Joseph), 1943-Date: [1976]- Books
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On the position of the motor centres in the brain in regard to the nutritive and social functions / by T. Lauder Brunton.
Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.Date: [1882]- Books
[Box of papers given at the Symposium on the history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions, London, 1957].
Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Knowledge of the Brain and its Functions (1957 : London, England)Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Books
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On the minute structure of the brain in the chimpanzee, and of the human idiot, compared with that of the perfect brain of man : with some reflections on the cerebral functions / by James Macartney.
Macartney, James, 1770-1843.Date: 1842- Books
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A case of gunshot wound of the brain in which the Roentgen rays showed the presence of eight fragments of the bullet : localization by Sweet's method made operation inadvisable : with a description of an improved apparatus for localization of foreign bodies / by W.W. Keen and Wm. M. Sweet.
Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.Date: 1903