Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914): Toxicologist,Neurologist and Novelist

Wilson JC . Tribute at the special meeting of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia upon the death of Dr S. Weir Mitchell. In: S. Weir Mitchell, md lld frs 1829–1914 Memorial Addresses and Resolutions. Philadelphia: College of Physicians, 1914: 7

Literary notes. BMJ 1914: i:436

Earnest E. S. Weir Mitchell Novelist and Physician. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950: 1–7

Burr AR . Weir Mitchell — His Life and Letters. New York: Duffield & Co., 1929: 28–9. The biography includes parts of an incomplete autobiography written by Silas Weir Mitchell, particularly relating to childhood and youth. Appendices list honours and memberships, and Mitchell's writings in chronological order

Ibid.:37

Ibid.:41

Ibid.:43

Bernard C. Leçons sur les effets des substances toxiques et medicamenteuses. Paris: JB Baillière, 1857: Introduction

Burr AR (op. cit. ref. 4):60–9

Walter RD . S. Weir Mitchell, M.D. – Neurologist. Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 1970: 33. This excellent biography contains critical accounts of Mitchell's main scientific and medical writings. The bibliography contains papers by John Kearsley Mitchell, and the complete scientific and medical works (253 citations) and literature and poetry (138 citations) of Silas Weir Mitchell

Welch WH Weir S. Mitchell, physician and man of science. In: S. Weir Mitchell, md lld frs 1829–1914 Memorial Addresses and Resolutions . Philadelphia: College of Physicians, 1914: 106–10

Burr AR (op. cit. ref. 4):91–2

Welch WH (op. cit. ref. 11):103–4

Mitchell SW . Researches upon the venom of the rattlesnake with an investigation of the anatomy and physiology of the organs concerned. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 1860; 12: 1–156

Burr AR (op. cit. ref. 4):72, 118

Ibid.:77

Mitchell SW Reichert ET . Preliminary report on the venoms of serpents. Med News Phila 1883; 42: 469–72

Mitchell SW Reichert ET . Researches upon the venoms of poisonous serpents. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 1886; 26: 1–186

Mitchell SW . The Medical Department in the Civil War. JAMA 1914; 62: 1445–50

Duchenne de Boulogne. De l'électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiologie, à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique. Paris: J-B Baillière, 1855

Mitchell SW Morehouse GR Keen WW . Gunshot Wounds and other Injuries of Nerves. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott & Co., 1864: 146–57

McHenry LC Jr . Introduction to the Dover edition of Injuries of Nerves and their Consequences . New York: Dover Publications, 1965: ix–xxii. This biography includes a critical account of the work of Mitchell related to war injuries

Walter RD (op. cit. ref. 10):105–10

Mitchell JK . Remote Consequences of Injuries of Nerves and Their Treatment. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1895

Welch WH (op. cit. ref. 11):118

Burr AR (op. cit. ref. 4):107

Mitchell SW . Selections from the Poems of S. Weir Mitchell. London: Macmillan, 1901

Mitchell SW . The Autobiography of a Quack and Other Stories. London: Macmillan, 1901

Bailey P. Silas Weir Mitchell. In: Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958: vol. 32, pp. 34–53. A scientific bibliography (168 citations) is appended

Mitchell SW . Researches on the physiology of the cerebellum. Am J Med Sci. 1869; 57: 320–38

Sherrington CS . The cerebellum. In: Schäfer EA , Ed. Textbook of Physiology. Edinburgh: Young J Pentland, 1900: vol. 2, p. 895

Burr AR (op. cit. ref. 4):139–40

Mitchell SW . On the use of bromide of lithium. Am J Med Sci. 1870; 60: 443–5

Mitchell SW . Wear and Tear or Hints for the Overworked (5th ed), thoroughly revised. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott & Co., 1887: 21. The first edition was published in 1873; the fifth edition was reprinted in the series Mental Illness and Social Policy. The American Experience. New York: Arno Press Inc., 1973

Mitchell SW . Rest in nervous disease: its use and abuse. In: Seguin EC , Ed. A Series of Clinical LectuRes.. New York: Putnam's Sons, 1876: vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 83–102

Mitchell SW . Fat and Blood, and How to Make Them. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott & Co., 1877: 7–8

Playfair WS . The Systematic Treatment of Nerve Prostration and Hysteria. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1883: 13

Mitchell SW (op. cit. ref. 36):42–3

Playfair WS (op. cit. ref. 37):63

The title became Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria (3rd edn). Philadelphia: JB Lippincott & Co., 1884

Mitchell SW Lewis MJ . The tendon-jerk and the muscle-jerk in disease, especially in posterior sclerosis. Am J Med Sci. 1886; 92: 363–72

Burr AR (op. cit. ref. 4):189–90

Mitchell SW . Commemorative address. Centennial anniversary of the Institution of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Trans Coll Physician Phila 1887; centennial volume: 305–34

Welch WH (op. cit. ref. 11):115

Burr AR (op. cit. ref. 4):176–7

Ibid.:76

Earnest E (op. cit. ref. 3):232

Burr AR (op. cit. ref. 4):239

Earnest E (op. cit. ref. 3):139–41

Wister O.S. Weir Mitchell, man of letters. In: S. Weir Mitchell, md lld frs 1829–1914 Memorial Addresses and Resolutions . Philadelphia: College of Physicians, 1914: 149

Earnest E (op. cit. ref. 3):233–4

McHenry LC Jr (op. cit. ref. 22):xx

Burr AR (op. cit. ref. 4):289

Tyson J. On the opening of the New Hall of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Trans Coll Physician Phila 1909; 31: 442

Keen WW . Tribute at the special meeting of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia upon the death of Dr S. Weir Mitchell. In: S. Weir Mitchell, md lld frs 1829–1914 Memorial Addresses and Resolutions. Philadelphia: College of Physicians, 1914: 15

Obituary. BMJ 1914; i: 119–21

Hawgood BJ . Abbé Felice Fontana (1730–1805): founder of modern toxinology. Toxicon 1995; 33: 591–601