WHYTT, Robert
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An essay on the vital and other involuntary motions of animals.Edinburgh: Hamilton, Balfour & Neill, 1751.Whytt, famous Edinburgh neurophysiologist, was the first to prove that the response of the pupils to light is a reflex action (“Whytt’s reflex”). He described this reflex at length and mentioned that its afferent pathways lie in the optic nerve and the efferent pathways in the third pair. Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › Neurophysiology, OPHTHALMOLOGY › Physiology of Vision |
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Observations on the nature, causes, and cure of those disorders which have been commonly called nervous hypochondriac, or hysteric, to which are prefixed some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves.London: T. Becket and P. Du Hondt & Edinburgh: J. Balfour, 1765.“First important English work on neurology after Willis” (Garrison). Subjects: PSYCHIATRY › Hysteria, PSYCHIATRY › Neuroses & Psychoneuroses |
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Observations on the dropsy in the brain.Edinburgh: J. Balfour, 1768.The first account of the clinical course of tuberculous meningitis in children. This work is notable for its fullness of detail and its accuracy. Whytt divided the disease into three stages, according to the character of the pulse, and he attributed its various manifestations to the presence of a serous exudate in the brain. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Neuroinfectious Diseases › Meningitis, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Tuberculosis, NEUROLOGY › Inflammatory Conditions › Cerebrospinal Meningitis, PEDIATRICS |
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The works of Robert Whytt, M.D. Late physician to his Majesty.... Published by his son.Edinburgh: T. Becket & London: T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt, 1768.Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: Collected Works: Opera Omnia, Neurophysiology, OPHTHALMOLOGY › Physiology of Vision, PSYCHIATRY › Neuroses & Psychoneuroses |