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See also:MITCHELL, See also:SILAS See also:WEIR (1830-) , See also:American physician and author, son of a See also:Philadelphia See also:doctor, See also:John Kearsley Mitchell (1798-1858), was See also:born in Philadelphia on the 15th of See also:February .183o. Ha studied at the university of See also:Pennsylvania in that See also:city, and received the degree of M.D. at See also:Jefferson Medical See also:College in 185o. During the See also:Civil See also:War he had See also:charge of See also:nervous injuries and maladies at See also:Turner's See also:Lane See also:Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the See also:close of the war became a specialist in nervous diseases. In this See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field Weir Mitchell's name became prominently associated with his introduction of the " See also:rest cure," subsequently taken up by the medical See also:world, for nervous diseases, particularly See also:hysteria; the treatment consisting primarily in See also:isolation, confinement to See also:bed, dieting and See also:massage. In 1863 he wrote a See also:clever See also:short See also:story, combining physiological and psychological problems, entitled " The See also:Case of See also:George Dedlow," in the See also:Atlantic Monthly. Thenceforward Dr Weir Mitchell, as a writer, divided his See also:attention between professional and See also:literary pursuits. In the former field he produced monographs on See also:rattlesnake See also:poison, on intellectual See also:hygiene, on injuries to the nerves, on See also:neurasthenia, on nervous diseases of See also:women, on the effects of gunshot wounds upon the nervous See also:system, and on the relations between See also:nurse, physician, and patient; while in the latter he wrote juvenile stories, several volumes of respectable See also:verse, and See also:prose fiction of varying merit, which, however, gave him a leading See also:place among the American authors of the close of the 19th See also:century. His See also:historical novels, See also:Hugh Wynne, See also:Free Quaker (1897), The Adventures of See also:Francois (1898) and The Red City (1909), take high See also:rank in this See also:branch of fiction.
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