In Memory of Silas Weir Mitchell, M.D., LL.D.

More on Literature and the History of Neuroscience: Using the Writings of Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) in Teaching the History of Neuroscience

Mary Harrington’s recent editorial on “Literature and the History of Neuroscience” (Harrington, 2006) indicated how Charlotte Gillman’s novel The Yellow Wallpaper (Gillman, 1892) is instructive to students of neuroscience by illustrating the changing concepts in mental illness and doctor-patient relationships, especially with regards to the historical contexts of cultural and gender issues. In ...

Personalizing illness and modernity: S. Weir Mitchell, literary women, and neurasthenia, 1870-1914.

This article examines how the affliction of neurasthenia, commonly diagnosed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, acted as a catalyst for intellectual and lifestyle changes during a time of modernization. At the center of the study are three individuals: neurologist S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) and two of his patients, critic and historian Amelia Gere Mason (1831-1923) and writ...

In Memory of Soon Yong Kim, MD

Korean J Radiol 15(5), Sep/Oct 2014 kjronline.org Dr. Soon Yong Kim, a great physician, a world-renowned radiologist, a beloved teacher and mentor, and an able hospital administrator, died on January 1, 2014 at the age of 91 years. Dr. Kim was born on September 21, 1922, in Hwanghae Province, western part of the waist of Korean peninsula, when Korea was occupied by Japan. He attended Pyongyang ...

Understanding and Treating Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

The Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association estimates that the CRPS affects between 200,000 and 1.2 million Americans. The underlying causes of the syndrome have yet to be defined, and no definitive diagnostic test exists even though CRPS was first described in the late 19th century by the neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell. Mitchell referred to the cluster of symptoms he noticed in some...

Drs. S. Weir Mitchell and Edward T. Reichert on the Poison of Heloderma Suspectum (Cope), the Gila Monster