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- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Chapter Four Andreas Vesalius
- Chapter Five William Harvey
- Chapter Six Thomas Willis
- Chapter Seven Giovanni Morgagni
- Chapter Eight Apoplexy
- Chapter Nine Atlases
- Chapter Ten Brainstem Syndromes
- Chapter Eleven Jules Dejerine
- Chapter Twelve Arterial and Venous Anatomy
- Chapter Thirteen Rudolf Virchow
- Chapter Fourteen Early Medical and Neurological Textbooks
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Chapter Fourteen - Early Medical and Neurological Textbooks
from Part II - Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2022
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Chapter Four Andreas Vesalius
- Chapter Five William Harvey
- Chapter Six Thomas Willis
- Chapter Seven Giovanni Morgagni
- Chapter Eight Apoplexy
- Chapter Nine Atlases
- Chapter Ten Brainstem Syndromes
- Chapter Eleven Jules Dejerine
- Chapter Twelve Arterial and Venous Anatomy
- Chapter Thirteen Rudolf Virchow
- Chapter Fourteen Early Medical and Neurological Textbooks
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Summary
During the first half of the twentieth century, most physicians obtained information about medical conditions and their diagnosis and management from textbooks. The great majority of stroke patients were cared for by primary care physicians and internists. No physicians specialized in stroke. Few neurologists were consulted. A review of some major popular internal medical and neurological textbooks yields a glimpse into knowledge about stroke and its cause at that time.
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- Stories of StrokeKey Individuals and the Evolution of Ideas, pp. 99 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022