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Silas Weir Mitchell (February 15, 1829 – January 4, 1914) was an American physician, scientist, novelist, and poet. He is considered the father of medical neurology, and he discovered causalgia (complex regional pain syndrome) and erythromelalgia, and pioneered the rest cure .
Nov 8, 2017 · One of these surgeons, Silas Weir Mitchell, was drawn to cases of nerve injury that his colleagues rejected as impossible to treat. When his specialty ward in Philadelphia filled up, the Army...
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While at Jefferson, Mitchell worked as a student assistant in the laboratory of Robley Dunglison, America's leading physiologist. In spite of his father's prediction he graduated Jefferson in 1850 at the age of 21.
Jan 29, 2017 · Silas Weir Mitchell was a Philadelphia native who was born the son of a prominent physician and seemed destined to become a doctor. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Silas was the rare combination of someone born rich but was also talented and intellectually curious.
Silas Weir Mitchell discovered and treated causalgia, a condition most often encountered by hand surgeons. He is considered the father of neurology as well as an early pioneer in scientific medicine. He was also a psychiatrist, toxicologist, author, poet, and a celebrity in America and Europe.
Aug 4, 2014 · He was not only a celebrated neurologist, but also a classic experimental physiologist, a critic of insane asylums as well as an innovative therapist for neuroasthenia or what was known in those days as the “vapors.”
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In civilian practice when faced with patients with neurosis and hysteria he developed his “rest cure”. It was based, he said, on moral and physical components described in his book Fat and blood2; the title reflected his experience that women with hysteria were often thin and ….
