Infirmary For Nervous Diseases Research Articles

Philadelphia Infirmary for Nervous Diseases: America's original model of institutional neurology.

The role and contributions of the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases in the development of neurology in 19th-century America are described. American neurology was largely born during the Civil War through the work of S.W. Mitchell at Turner's Lane Hospital. With the closing of this military facility, the United States was left without an institution dedicated to neurologic research and the treatment of nervous system diseases. Nineteenth century archival data, including original Trustees' minutes, annual board of managers reports, patient case books, and published research from the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases were studied. The Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases promoted the development of neurology in the United States through three main activities. First, it offered patients with primary nervous system diseases, arthritis, and orthopedic disorders specialized care that was unavailable at medical universities. Second, its medical staff, especially Mitchell, provided opportunities for advanced neurologic education. Postgraduate physicians interested in neurologic disease attended formal lectures and directly participated in the operation of outpatient clinics and inpatient rounds. Finally, its formalized record system in the form of case books facilitated neurologic research. These records formed the basis of landmark publications by Mitchell, Sinkler, Osler, and others on rest therapy, spastic palsies, chorea, and other topics. As America's first and comprehensive peacetime neurologic facility, the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases fostered the evolution of neurology as a separate, viable specialty in the post-Civil War period and provided a particular focus for the study of interactions among orthopedic, nutritional, and neurologic disorders.

The birth of American neurology and highlights from the first 100 years of the Philadelphia Neurological Society, 1884-1984.

The Philadelphia Neurological Society was founded 100 years ago by Charles K. Mills, together with Wharton Sinkler, J.T. Eskridge, and Francis X. Dercum. S. Weir Mitchell was the first president and served for 5 additional years. American neurology was born in Philadelphia at the Orthopedic Hospital and the Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. The growth in neurology in this country is reflected in the activities of the Philadelphia Neurological Society.

Book Review Surgery: Its Principles and Practice . For students and practitioners. By Astley Paston Cooper Ashurst, A.B.; M.D.; F.A.C.S. Prof. Clinical Surg. Univ. of Penn., Surgeon to Episcopal Hospital and to the Phil. Orthopaedic Hosp. and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases; Colonel, Med. Resv. Corps, U. S. Army. Third Edition. Thoroughly revised, with 15 colored plates and 1046 illustrations in

Book Review Surgery: Its Principles and Practice . For students and practitioners. By Astley Paston Cooper Ashurst, A.B.; M.D.; F.A.C.S. Prof. Clinical Surg. Univ. of Penn., Surgeon to Episcopal Hospital and to the Phil. Orthopaedic Hosp. and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases; Colonel, Med. Resv. Corps, U. S. Army. Third Edition. Thoroughly revised, with 15 colored plates and 1046 illustrations in

ACUTE ENCEPHALITIC PARKINSONISM

The case herein described is of interest because of the development of a paralysis agitans syndrome almost immediately following an attack of acute epidemic encephalitis. It is of further interest because the condition lasted only a short time, and has not recurred in two years. REPORT OF CASE History. —L. F., a Jewish boy, aged 15, entered the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, Nov. 26, 1924, complaining of pain, twitching and stiffness in his right shoulder and arm. The family history is unimportant. Both parents were alive and in good health, and the patient was the second in a family of four. His birth and development had been entirely normal. While not particularly bright in his school work, he had done very well and at the time of entrance to the hospital he was in his first year of high school. He was an active youngster, fond

Address at the Dedication of the Mitchell Memorial Building of the Philadelphia Orthopædic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases

Address at the Dedication of the Mitchell Memorial Building of the Philadelphia Orthopædic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases

Book Review Surgery: Its Principles and Practice . For Students and Practitioners. By Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.S.; Instructor in Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Surgeon to the Episcopal Hospital and Assistant Surgeon to the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. With 7 colored plates and 1032 illustrations in the text, mostly original. Philadelphia

Book Review Surgery: Its Principles and Practice . For Students and Practitioners. By Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.S.; Instructor in Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Surgeon to the Episcopal Hospital and Assistant Surgeon to the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. With 7 colored plates and 1032 illustrations in the text, mostly original. Philadelphia

PARALYSIS AGITANS IN NEGROES

Paralysis agitans is rare in negroes. The patient whose case is here reported was the only negro among the ninety-two persons suffering from it admitted to the Philadelphia General Hospital (Blockely) during the last eight years. I find no case recorded at the Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. The number of negroes treated at the latter hospital, however, is relatively small; at Blockley it is large. Dr. James W. McConnell tells me that at the clinic for nervous diseases at the University of Pennsylvania he has not found any case recorded save the patient who later came under my care at Blockley. I have never seen any other case, and in a rapid glance over the literature of the disease I have found no reference to its occurrence in the negro. Patient A negro man aged 52 was admitted to the hospital June 3, 1912.

UNILATERAL OPTIC ATROPHY AND CONTRALATERAL HEMIPLEGIA CONSEQUENT ON OCCLUSION OF THE CEREBRAL VESSELS

Occlusion of one middle cerebral artery producing hemiplegia on the opposite side of the body is an everyday occurrence; furthermore, optic atrophy as a result of obliteration of the retinal vessels on the same side is well known, but the combination of unilateral optic atrophy and contralateral hemiplegia is seldom encountered and might be very confusing. Cases of this kind have been described by Elschnig, 1 Gowers, 2 Hughlings Jackson, 3 Siegrist, 4 Williamson, 5 Batten and Guthrie, 6 Guthrie and Mayou, 7 Oppenheim, 8 von Monokow 9 and Starr. 10 With the exception of a brief reference in Starr's text-book, I have not been able to find any description of this symptom-complex in American literature; therefore it seemed important to record the following cases. The first case was seen in the service of Dr. John K. Mitchell at the Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, and the second

Recent Literature The Roller Bandage . By William Barton Hopkins, M.D., Surgeon to Pennsylvania Hospital and to the Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. With illustrations. Fifth edition, revised. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1902.

Recent Literature The Roller Bandage . By William Barton Hopkins, M.D., Surgeon to Pennsylvania Hospital and to the Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. With illustrations. Fifth edition, revised. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1902.

Recent Literature A Clinical Treatise on Fractures . By William Barton Hopkins, M.D., Surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital and to the Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. 1900.

Recent Literature A Clinical Treatise on Fractures . By William Barton Hopkins, M.D., Surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital and to the Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. 1900.

REPORT OF A CASE OF SPINAL ARTHROPATHY, IN WHICH MANY OF THE SYMPTOMS OF SERIOUS LESION OF THE CORD ARE ABSENT

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Surgeon to St. Agnes Hospital; Assistant Surgeon to the Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases

DISEASES AND CONDITIONS TO WHICH THE REST TREATMENT IS ADAPTED

Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, and Neurologist to the Philadelphia Hospital

Recent Literature The Cerebral Palsies of Children. A Clinical Study from the Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, Philadelphia . By William Osler, M.D., F.R.C.P., London; Professor of Clinicul Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, etc. 8vo, pp. viii, 103, with six illustrations, Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co. 1889.

Recent Literature The Cerebral Palsies of Children. A Clinical Study from the Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, Philadelphia . By William Osler, M.D., F.R.C.P., London; Professor of Clinicul Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, etc. 8vo, pp. viii, 103, with six illustrations, Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co. 1889.