Article ID: CBB751154042

Clinical practices: Epilepsy at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, London, from 1860 to 1870 (2020)

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In the nineteenth century, epilepsy was established as a curable and treatable condition at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, in London, England. Since its inception, the National Hospital (NH) hosted the work of many physicians who tried to characterise and define epilepsy as a nosological entity. During the first decade of this Institution, different medical traditions, clinical practices, staff, physicians (among them, John Hughlings Jackson, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Jabez Spence Ramskill, and Charles Bland Radcliffe), patients, remedies, devices and publications, began to grant the National Hospital a place in London society as a special medical community. The delimitation of epilepsy at the National Hospital would have an impact on the study and description of the human nervous system at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Eadie, Mervyn J.
Binder, Devin K.
Bladin, Peter F.
Clark, Michael J.
Grunert, Peter
Guenther, Katja
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
History of Psychiatry
Antike Naturwissenschaft und Ihre Rezeption
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Journal of Medical Biography
Pharmacy in History
Publishers
Oxford University Press
University of Pennsylvania
Cambridge University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Peter Lang
Concepts
Neurology
Epilepsy
Hospitals and clinics
Medicine
Disease and diseases
Neurological diseases
People
Down, John Langdon Haydon
Jackson, John Hughlings
Kussmaul, Adolf
Merritt, Hiram Houston
Paul, John Rodman
Putnam, Tracy Jackson
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
20th century, late
Places
London (England)
Germany
United States
England
Great Britain
Berlin (Germany)
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Johns Hopkins University
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Queen Square, London
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