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Robert H. Wilkins, MD; Irwin A. Brody, MD

Arch Neurol. 1970;22(1):89-90.

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CHANCE led Silas Weir Mitchell (1829 to 1914) into the field of neurology during the Civil War.¹ While treating battlefield casualties, the versatile and industrious Mitchell undertook the first major study of peripheral nerve injuries, in the course of which he recognized and described the syndrome of causalgia.

Weir Mitchell was an experimental physiologist with no experience in neurology when he enlisted in the United States Army in 1862. He was initially assigned to a general military hospital, where he soon developed an interest in patients with neurological disorders. As the numbers of these cases increased, Surgeon General William A. Hammond,² who with Mitchell was a founder of American neurology,^3,4 established a special neurological hospital in Philadelphia, first on Christian Street and then on Turner's Lane.⁵ Weir Mitchell and George R. Morehouse were placed in charge of the hospital, and William W. Keen was added . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Durham, NC

From the Divisions of Neurosurgery and Neurology, Duke University Medical Center and the Durham Veterans Administration Hospital, Durham, NC.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 25, 1969; accepted July 28.

Reprint requests to the Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27706 (Dr. Wilkins).

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