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Silas Weir Mitchell

American physician (1829–1914)

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4 images from works
  • Weir Mitchell : his life and letters / by Anna Robeson Burr.
  • Weir Mitchell : his life and letters / by Anna Robeson Burr.
  • Weir Mitchell : his life and letters / by Anna Robeson Burr.
  • Weir Mitchell : his life and letters / by Anna Robeson Burr.

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77 works

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    Lectures on diseases of the nervous system, especially in women / by S. Weir Mitchell.

    Silas Weir Mitchell | Date: [1885], ©1885
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    Some recently discovered letters of William Harvey, with other miscellanea / by S. Weir Mitchell ; with a bibliography of Harvey's works by Charles Perry Fisher.

    William Harvey | Date: 1912
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    Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / by S. Weir Mitchell.

    Silas Weir Mitchell | Date: 1898
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    Nurse and patient, and Camp cure / by S. Weir Mitchell.

    Silas Weir Mitchell | Date: 1877
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    Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / [S. Weir Mitchell].

    Silas Weir Mitchell | Date: 1902
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Frequent collaborators

Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Related topics

Neurasthenia
Hysteria
Rest
United States
Trauma, Nervous System
Physician-Patient Relations
History, 19th Century
Mental Fatigue
Physicians
Philadelphia

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