W H R Rivers and the Hazards of Interpretation

Obituary. Rivers W H R . BMJ 1922; 1: 936–7.

Obituary. W H R Rivers. Lancet, 1922; i: 1171–2.

Ackerknecht EH. In memory of William H R Rivers, 1864–1922. Bull Hist Med 1942; 11: 478–81.

Rivers WHR. Vision. In: Schafer E A , ed. Textbook of physiology, Vol II. Edinburgh: Pentland, 1898–1900: 1026–48. (Rivers dealt with the eye, Schafer himself dealt with the cortical representation of vision).

Rivers WHR. The influence of alcohol and other drugs on fatigue: Croonian lectures 1906. London: Arnold, 1908.

Rivers WHR. History of Melanesian society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914.

Rivers WHR. Medicine, Magic and Religion: Fitzpatrick Lectures 1915, 1917. Lancet 1916; i: 59–65, 117–123; 1917;2:919–23, 959–64.

Rivers WHR. The dying out of races. Lancet, 1920; i: 42–4.

Garrison FH. An introduction to the history of medicine, 2nd edn. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1917.

Rivers WHR Head H. A human experiment in nerve division. Brain, 1908; 31: 323–40.

Trotter W Davies HM. Experimental studies in the innervation of the skin. J Physiol 1909; 38: 134–246; translated by Trotter in J Psychol Neurol 1913;20:123.

Boring EG. Cutaneous sensation after nerve division. Q J Exp Physiol 1916; 10: 1–95.

Head H Holmes G. Sensory disturbances from cerebral lesions. Brain 1911; 34: 102–254.

Rivers WHR. Freud's psychology of the unconscious. Lancet 1917; i: 912–14.

Corrigan F. Siegfried Sassoon: Poet's pilgrimage. London: Gollancz, 1973.

Sassoon S. Sheraton's progress. London: Faber, 1936.

Rivers WHR. Instinct and the unconscious. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.

Head H Riddoch G. The automatic bladder, excessive sweating and some other reflex conditions, in gross injuries of the spinal cord. Brain 1917; 40: 188–263.

Hensen RA. Henry Head: His influence on development of ideas on sensation. Brit Med Bull 1977; 33: 91–6.

Trotter W. Instinct of the herd in peace and war. 1st edn 1916–1919, reprinted. London: The Keynes Press, 1985.

Smith GE. The late Dr W H R Rivers, an appreciation. Lancet 1922; i: 1222.

Graves R. Goodbye to all that. London: Cassells, 1929.

Sassoon S. Collected poems. London: Faber, 1947, reprinted 1961.