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Nervous system - Diseases

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  • Mrs John Webb, being nursed when sick in bed with "a dead palsey, and ... convulsion in the nerves", before being cured by Sir William Read. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1700.

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    Essays on hysteria, brain-tumor, and some other cases of nervous disease.

    Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906. | Date: 1888
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    Roentgen treatment of diseases of the nervous system / by Cornelius G. Dyke and Leo M. Davidoff.

    Dyke, Cornelius G. | Date: [1942]
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    Nervous exhaustion and the diseases induced by it : with observations on the origin and nature of nervous force.

    Campbell, Hugh Joseph, 1898- | Date: 1873
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    Herbs & nutrients for neurologic disorders : treatment strategies for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, multiple sclerosis, migraine, seizures / Sidney J. Kurn, M.D., and Sheryl Shook, PhD.

    Kurn, Sidney, 1943- | Date: 2016
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    Organic and functional nervous diseases : a textbook of neurology / by M. Allen Starr.

    Starr, M. Allen (Moses Allen), 1854-1932. | Date: 1913
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Nervous System Diseases
Insanity (Law)
Mental Disorders
Mental Disorders
Brain - Diseases
Therapeutics
Epilepsy
Hysteria
Paralysis
Neurasthenia

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