Silas Weir Mitchell ( January 15 , 1829 – January 4 , 1914 ) was an American physician and writer. Sourced I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics. Transaction...
Although now largely forgotten, S. Weir Mitchell was once a celebrity: a prominent Philadelphia physician, America's foremost neurologist, and a best-selling author. Mitchell's controversial "rest cure" for neurasthenia was administered to such...
Silas Weir Mitchell (January 15, 1829–January 4, 1914) was an American physician and writer. He was son of a physician, John Kearsley Mitchell (1798–1858), and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania in...
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The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences
Biderman and Herman (1) recently assessed the contribution of Silas Weir Mitchell to psychiatry and noted that he was a mentor to the psychiatrists of his time. Grob (2), in commenting on this assessment, saw Mitchell as more of a social critic. Both...
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The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences
Abstract: Silas Weir Mitchell was held by many of his contemporaries in the United States, Great Britain and on the continent of Europe to be the greatest medical scientist in the Western Hemisphere. He is considered the founding father of American neurology and made...
