Experimentum nascens de remedio specifico sub signo specifico in mania virorum. + Locher, Maximillian: Observationes Practicae circa Luem Veneream, Epilepsiam et Maniam, .

Auenbrugger, Leopold v.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1776

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Vienna, J.Kurzbök, 1776, 8°, 7 Bl., 157 pp.; Wien 1762, 8°, 108 pp; Halbledereinband der Zeit. First Edition of this extremely rare book of the discoverer of percussions! For a full account see Hunter-Macalpine, viz.: "Leopold von Auenbrugger (1722-1809), physician of Vienna (famed for introducing percussion into medicine in 1761) acclaimed camphor as a specific in certain types of insanity comparable with opium in pain and quinine in tertian and quartan fevers (Experimentum nascens de remedio specifico sub signo specifico in mania virorum, 1776, Vienna) with which he plied his patients until severe and prolonged convulsions were produced. Because of this analytic action camphor was resuscitated in the early 1930s to produce epileptiform convulsions in schizophrenics on the rationale of a supposititious biological antagonism between schizophrenia and epilepsy (founded on the erroneous observation that they never occurred together). It was hoped that artificially induced fits would drive out the mental illness like the spontaneous fits of epilepsy were thought to do. The subsequent development of the convulsant or shock treatments is well known: how camphor given intramuscularly was soon replaced by metrazol and how this in turn was superseded by electric currents applied directly to the head, and how it was claimed that depressed patients responded better those suffering from schizophrenia, the mania of Kinneir's time." p. 332. Laehr, Lit. d. Psychiatrie II, 729, 816; Waller 518; Norman 88; D.S.B., Hunter/Macalpine 332; Ducret, Auenbrugger als Psychiater, Ph.D. Diss., Zürich, 1955. Rare - Not in Index Catalogue Surg. Lib., Osler and Wellcome & Locher, Maximilian (?-1768): Observationes practicae circa luem veneriam, epilepsiam et maniam, tria morborum genera in praedicto nosocomio prae aliis maxime obvia. His accedunt casus varii, qui ulteriorem cicutae usum internum et externum in morbis curatu difficillimis confirmant. Viennae, Typis Joannis Trattner, 1762. - 108 p. First edition Locher was a medical doctor, active in Vienna and worked as Physicus of the Markus-Spital and the Orphanage of Vienna. He was protected by van Swieten, promoting mercurial treatment for syphilis, and was opposed by Brambilla, vividly described by Proksch, Geschichte II. Blake 274; Hirsch/Hübotter III, 815; Schönbauer, Das medizinische Wien 123; Proksch, Geschichte II, 445; Proksch, Litteratur I, 132 and III, 647; Wellcome III, 534. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18627

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Erscheinungsdatum: 1776

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