The French medical profession's perception of its social function between 1776 and 1830

Murphy, Terence

doi:10.1017/s0025727300051759

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“…According to Raymond and Renauldin (1854), his given names were really Joseph-Benoit. See also Murphy (1979), especially p 268-271. 40 Fodéré (1800) However, Soemmering's argument that the ventricles were just the area where the cranial nerves meet lacked substantive evidence.…”

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Seventeenth‐ and eighteenth‐century commentators on the chemical composition of the brain

1995

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

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The period between 1600 and 1800 was one of great change in the history of science, generally, and in the history of chemistry, specifically. It opened with Francis Bacon's visionary recognition of the benefits to mankind that would accrue from the expansion of scientia and closed with the overthrow of the phlogiston hypothesis. New chemical knowledge resulted from the efforts of the alchemists, especially in Paracelsians, and of the phlogistic philosophers, some of it recorded by writers of magic books (Thorndike, 1958; Camporesi, 1989). The authors of these works reflected 'the general mentality ... imbued with magic, occult beliefs, unreal suggestions, 'voices', and 'rumours', ... 'errors' and 'prejudices'. In respect to brain chemistry there appeared, beside the fantastic, elements of fact that characterise this period as embracing the 'pre-history' of neurochemistry.

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