Article ID: CBB150412299

Richard Bright’s Observations on Diseases of the Nervous System Due to Inflammation (2018)

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This study examines case reports of brain diseases attributed to inflammation in Richard Bright’s Reports of Medical Cases, Volume II. The rationale for the belief that these cases were due to inflammation is discussed in light of theories of inflammation that were current in Bright’s time. The consequences of these theories for the therapy of brain diseases are evaluated. The value of Bright’s reports lies in the accuracy of the descriptions of a number of brain diseases, featuring descriptions of symptoms or conditions that were novel or not well known in the early nineteenth century. They provided a conception of diseases that constituted “typical condition of many patients,” rather than “disorderly condition of a particular patient.” Many cases are illustrated by remarkable images of pathological specimens.

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Authors & Contributors
Advokat, Claire
Baumeister, Alan A.
Brosius, Stephanie
Day, Sean A.
Eadie, Mervyn J.
Evans, Bonnie
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Taiwan shehui yanjiu jikan (Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies)
Medicina Historica
Publishers
Manchester University Press
MIT Press
Springer
Thieme
Concepts
Neurological diseases
Neurosciences
Neurology
Brain
Epilepsy
Medicine
People
Bright, Richard
Charcot, Jean Martin
Economo, Constantin von
Recklinghausen, Friedrich Daniel von
Bouchet, Camille
Lévy, Gabrielle
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
20th century, late
Ancient
Places
France
Great Britain
Taiwan
Greece
Italy
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