The Evolution of Man and His Mind: A History and Discussion of the Evolution and Relation of the Mind and Body of Man and Animals 1903
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Therapeutics, Materia Medica and the Practice of Medicine: Arranged Alphabetically by Topics for Convenient Reference (Classic Reprint)
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Usefulness and reliability were kept constantly in view in the construction of this book; pedanticisms, serving merely to fill space in so many text books, robbing the time of the student, are especially omitted; nor is there adherence to any cumbrous system for consistency sake. The impossibility of making a work of this kind conjoin all the compendious qualities of the heavier tomes is compensated by its free dom from the dignified drivel of the average Therapeutics.
Any appearance of enthusiastic endorsement of proprietary articles in a few instances can be compared with the unhesitating denunciation of many such compounds emanating from the same manufacturers. They never subsidize an author to praise one of their medicines and condemn the rest.
The publications of such reputable houses as those of Squibb and Merck have been freely used with their permission, to advantage but this work, while embodying information from many sources, to be found in no other single volume, is intensely original, particularly with topics upon which the author has been forced to be familiar through antagonizing some of the worst and most powerful elements in large cities.
Under Prescribing, Therapeutics, etc., other dissertations occur that are usually included in a preface or introduction.
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Spinal Concussion: Surgically Considered as a Cause of Spinal Injury, and Neurologically Restricted to a Certain Symptom Group, for Which Is Suggested ... of the Traumatic Neuroses (Classic Reprint)
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A class OF injuries that is frequently caused by railway accidents can be studied to advantage in any large metropolis. Chicago, being a great railway centre, naturally affords consider able material for such investigation, though the newness of that city and its consequent dearth of scientific and medical libraries oppose obstacles to research that can only be overcome by labor and sacrifices not experienced by students in older cities.
The need of a new work on Spinal Concussion is apparent in the scattered condition of the essays on the subject, and from the fact that the treatises now in use are twenty years behind the times.
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Comparative Physiology and Psychology: A Discussion of the Evolution and Relations of the Mind and Body of Man and Animals (Classic Reprint)
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Heretofore the mental workings have been discussed chiefly by a class called metaphysicians, many of whom were astute observers; but in the main their system was so insufficient, SO one sided, and their deductions Often so absurd as to discourage honest investigators and cause such a thing as a science of the human mind to be looked upon as chimerical, and even though possible to achieve, as of doubtful use.
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Shobal Vail Clevenger was an American psychiatrist who specialized in nervous and mental diseases.
Background
Shobal Vail Clevenger was born on March 24, 1843 in Florence, Italy. He was the son of Shobal Vail Clevenger and his wife, Elizabeth Wright of Cincinnati. Six months old when his father died, he was cared for during part of his early childhood by relatives in the United States.
Education
He joined his mother and stepfather Thwing in New Orleans to begin his schooling, but a visitation of yellow fever in 1853 scattered this family, and a relative in St. Louis put him to work as a bank messenger (1855).
He obtained his M. D. from the Chicago Medical College (1879).
Career
Several years later he served as clerk and interpreter for Señor Aguirre who was engaged in freighting goods between Kansas City and Mexico; and when the Civil War broke out he enlisted in a Kansas City company but was soon transferred, at Nashville, to the United States Engineer Corps, in which he had much experience in building railways and bridges. He was later a government surveyor in the Dakotas and civil engineer in charge of building the South Dakota Railway. He also installed telegraph lines and telegraphed weather reports to the Smithsonian Institution. He contributed articles on scientific subjects to Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine and published a Treatise on Government Surveying (1874) which went through several editions. For years he had collected evidence of corruption in the Land and Indian departments and early in the seventies made a trip to Washington for the joint purpose of securing contracts and submitting his evidence, but the results were so unsatisfactory that he returned home determined to change his profession. Although he was made superintendent of the government observatory at Fort Sully, he began to read medicine with an army post surgeon, Dr. Bergen; then, having lost his government position through politics, he worked as a steamboat clerk to get funds for his medical project. He began to specialize in neurology and psychiatry and to write articles under these heads. In 1883 he secured the position of special pathologist to the Cook County Insane Asylum at Dunning and began to make case records and autopsies on the brains of the insane. The corruption which prevailed in such institutions was shameless, and, although he was an appointee of the political machine, he began to expose the abuses in the Chicago Inter-Ocean but was unsuccessful in obtaining the cooperation of the press, pulpit, bar, clubmen, business men, or any other group. He resigned when a pistol bullet had imperilled his family and devoted himself to private practise, serving for a time as neurologist to the Alexian Brothers' and Michael Reese Hospitals. In 1884 appeared his Comparative Physiology and Psychology, and his classic work, Spinal Concussion (1889), gave him an international reputation. He lectured in various capacities at the Art Institute, School of Pharmacy, and Law School, but never held a chair in a medical college, although he received offers from eastern institutions. In 1893 Gov. Altgeld appointed him superintendent of the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee and he planned great reforms in the treatment of the insane, based on the belief that insanity is often due to or aggravated by physical ailments. He gave up his private practise and hospital appointments for this work, but, as he would not adjust himself to political exigencies, he was soon forced to resign and return once more to private life. He wrote much and testified in many cases involving medical jurisprudence, also maintained a large correspondence with Eastern psychiatrists and brain specialists, and published the following works: Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity; The Evolution of Man and His Mind (1903); Therapeutics, Materia Medica and the Practice of Medicine (1905), and the autobiographical Fun in a Doctor's Life (1909). Tiring of the city, he lived for many years at Park Ridge. When finally he sought to resume his practise it was without success, and his last days were spent in narrow circumstances. He died of cerebral hemorrhage on his seventy-seventh birthday. Clevenger had the usual defects of versatility. Numerous patented inventions brought him but little money, the best known being his booktypewriter and his brain model for teaching. In his hatred of sham he sometimes went too far, as when he condemned certain neurologists for belief in the efficacy of electrotherapy. He was often inconsistent, for he testified in court cases while deploring the principle of factional expert testimony and fought the spoils system of which he was the beneficiary. His reform efforts were always single-handed and hence foredoomed to failure.