Article ID: CBB001551881

A Contextual Analysis of Nervous Force in Medico-Scientific and Literary Writings in English of the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries (2015)

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This study concerns the context of use of the term “nervous force,” as it appears in scientific and literary publications in English over the course of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century. The context of use, loss, or waste of nervous force and the context of nervous force as an expression of an attribute are analyzed in 189 scientific and 105 literary writings. Both contexts appeared in literary writings, where nervous force expresses the attributes of strength, forcefulness, vigor, or energy and use, loss or waste of nervous force explains such nonmorbid conditions as why someone is tired or needs rest. Only the context of use-loss-waste appeared in the medico-scientific literature, but here it explained both nonmorbid conditions (for example, effects of old age) and morbid conditions (like epilepsy). Changes in the number of these references give insights into the medico-scientific and the literary disciplines. Discussions include why nervous force is associated with explanation of disease, the persistence of its use in this capacity, and its influence on a similar use in literary writings.

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Authors & Contributors
Lazar, J. Wayne
Barbara, Jean-Gaël
Anctil, Michel
Keiser, Jess
Marco Cascella
Wübben, Yvonne
Concepts
Nervous system
Neurosciences
Neurology
Brain
Psychology
Neuroanatomy
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Enlightenment
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
France
United States
Italy
Germany
Paris (France)
Institutions
Salpêtrière, Paris
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