Silas Weir Mitchell - bibliography

Bibliography

• Researches on the venom of the rattlesnake.
  With Edward Tyson Reichert. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1860.
• On the production of cataract in frogs by the administration of sugar.
  American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Philadelphia, 1860, n.s. 39: 106-110.
• Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves.
  With William Keen Jr. and George Morehouse.
  Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1864.
  Reprinted, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.
  In this classic work the entity causalgia was given its place in medicine.
• Reflex Paralysis, the result of gunshot wounds, and other injuries of nerves, founded chiefly upon cases observed in the United States General Hospital, Christian Street, Philadelphia.
  Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1864.
• Researches on the physiology of the cerebellum.
  American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Philadelphia, 1869, 57: 320-338.
• Wear and Tear. Philadelphia, 1871.
• Injuries of Nerves and their Consequences.
  Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1872.
  This classic was still used by the French as late as World War I.
• Clinical lecture on certain painful affections of the feet.
  Philadelphia Medical Times, 1872, 3: 81-82, 113-115.
• Post-Paralytic Chorea.
  American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Philadelphia, 1874, 68: 342-352.
• Headaches, From Heat Stroke, From Fevers, After Meningitis, From Over Use of the Brain, From Eye Strain.
  Medical and Surgical Reporter, Philadelphia, 1874, 31: 67-71.
• The Supply of Nerves to the Skin.
  Philadelphia Medical Times, 1874; 4: 401-403.
• On Rest in the treatment of Nervous Disease: Its Use and Abuse.
  A Series of American Clinical Lectures, E. C. Seguin, ed. I. New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1875, pp. 83-102.
  Also in the semipopular book by Mitchell, Fat and Blood; Philadelphia, 1877.
• Fat and Blood, and how to make them. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, & Co., 1877.
  German translation by Georg Klemperer, 1887.
  Includes full account of Weir Mitchell’s rest cure for nervous disorders.
• Nurse and Patient. Philadelphia, 1877.
• The Relation of pain to weather, being a study of the natural history of a case of traumatic neuralgia.
  American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Philadelphia, 1877; 73: 305-329.
• On a Rare Vaso-motor Neurosis of the Extremities, and on the Maladies with Which It May Be Confounded.
  American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Philadelphia, 1878; 76: 17-36.
• The Cremaster-Reflex.
  Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Chicago, 1879; 6: 577-586.
• Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System –- Especially in Women. 1881.
• Researches Upon the Venoms of Poisonous Snakes.
  With Edward Tyson Reichert (1855-).
  Washington, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 1886; 26: 1-186.
  Mitchell and Reichert showed snake venom to be protein in nature, and demonstrated the presence of toxic albumins.
• Physiological Studies of the Knee-jerk and of the Reactions of Muscles Under Mechanical and Other Excitants. With Morris James Lewis (1852-)
  Medical News, Philadelphia, 1886, 48: 169-173, 198-203.
  Demonstration that the knee-jerk can be reinforced by sensory stimulation.
• Doctor and Patient. Philadelphia, 1888.
• The Early History of Instrumental Precision in Medicine.
  New Haven; Tuttle, Moorehouse & Taylor, 1892.
• Clinical Lessons of Nervous Diseases. 1897. Novels etc.
  
• The Case of George Deadlow. 1866.
  
• Hephzibah Guinness.
  Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, & Co.,1880.
  
• Roland Blake. 1886.
  
• Far in the Forest. 1888.
  
• A Madeira Party. 1895
  
• Memoir of Owen Jones. 1896.
  
• Hugh Wynne. 1898.
  
• The Adventures of François. 1898.
  
• The Autobiography of a Quack. 1900.
  
• Circumstance. 1901.
  
• Constance Trescott. 1905.
  
• The Red City. 1908. Poetry:
  
• The Hill of Stones. 1882.
  
• The Masque and Other Poems. 1887.
  
• The Psalm of Death. 1890.
  
• Collected Poems. 1896.
  
• The Wager. 1900.
• Selections from the poems of S. Weir Mitchell. London, Macmillan, 1901.
• Doctor and Patient. E. P. Consult Oberholtzer: Personal memoiries of Weir Mitchell’. In the Bookman, volume XXXIX, New York, 1914.
• Memorial Addresses. Philadelphia, 1914.
  
• Sir William Osler, in British Medical Journal, 1914, page 119 ().
  
• Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton (1844-1916), in Nature, 1913, 92: 534.
  
• James Jackson Putnam, in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1914, 170: 821-825.
  
• Charles Karsner Mills (1845-1931), in Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Chicago, 1914, 41: 65-74
• Charles W. Burr:
  The S. Weir Mitchell Oration. Philadelphia 1920.
• J. Madison Taylor:
  Personal Glimpses of Silas Weir Mitchell.
  Annals of Medical History, 1929, 1: 583-598.
• H. E. Sigerist:
  Amerika und die Medizin. Leipzig, 1933: 137-139.
• Anna Robeson Burr:
  Weir Mitchell, his life and letters. New York City, 1930.
• Richard D. Walter:
  S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., Neurologist: A Medical Biography.
  Springfield, Illinois, 1970, 202-222.