The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, January 1st, 2003
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 important contributions in the fields of basic science and the delineation of diseases. He was also a best-selling novelist and a public figure of stature. According to Wilder Penfield, the eminent Canadian neurosurgeon, Mitchell was, for the last three decades of the 19th century, the outstanding psychiatrist in the United States...
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