S. Weir Mitchell, novelist and physician.

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“[S. Weir Mitchell, –] is the first comprehensive, postfeminist biography of Mitchell Cervetti’s book is sure to become the biography of record.” —David G. Schuster, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography “This book is the first modern, reliable biography of S. Weir Mitchell based on thorough research and Cited by: 7.

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15,Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Jan. 4,Philadelphia), American physician and author who excelled in novels of psychology and historical romance. After study at the University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson Medical College (M.D., ), Mitchell spent a year in Paris specializing in neurology. Genre/Form: Biographies Biography: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Earnest, Ernest.

Weir Mitchell, novelist and physician. Philadelphia, Univ. “[S. Weir Mitchell, –] is the first comprehensive, postfeminist biography of Mitchell Cervetti’s book is sure to become the biography of record.” —David G. Schuster, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography “This book is the first modern, reliable biography of S.

Weir Mitchell based on thorough research and Price: $ S. Weir Mitchell, Philadelphia's literary physician by Nancy Cervetti (); S. Weir Mitchell by Joseph P Lovering (Book); S. Weir Mitchell, novelist and physician by Ernest Penney Earnest (Book). Physician Silas Weir Mitchell is perhaps best remembered for his “Rest Cure” for nervous women, depicted by his onetime patient Charlotte Perkins Gilman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” ().

In the harrowing tale, the narrator slowly goes mad while enduring Mitchell’s regimen of enforced bed rest, seclusion and overfeeding. JCast Network 牛人昊昊 Hope Chapel Maui FM37度8 Musings of a German physicist and missionary Histoires de Revenants Book and Author Series - BA Series.

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Weir Mitchell ; Researches Upon the Venoms of Poisonous Serpents ; The Early History of Instrumental Precision in Medicine ; Injuries of Nerves and Their Consequences ; The Complete Poems Of S. Weir Mitchell ; The Children's Hour Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version.

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Like Tucker's book, it subdivides Mitchell as Physician, Poet, Man, Novelist; and the literary discussion mainly takes the form of uncritical summary. To the early s belong Ernest Earnest's S.

WEIR MITCHELL: NOVELIST AND PHYSICIAN (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, ) and David M. Rein's S. WEIR MITCHELL AS A PSYCHIATRIC NOVELIST (NY. Silas Weir Mitchell (Janu – January 4, ) was an American physician and writer. Born: January 15th, Died: January 4th, Categories: Americans, Authors, Physicians, s deaths.

Quotes: 6 sourced quotes total. Silas Weir Mitchell was a scientist, novelist, poet, world traveller and philanthropist. Admired by men like Sir William Osler, Andrew Carnegie, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Sigmund Freud, Mitchell was anything but an ordinary nineteenth-century physician.

Biography/History. Weir Mitchell, physician, novelist, and poet, was born in Philadelphia on 15 February Mitchell was the son of John Kearsley Mitchell (), a physician and lecturer at Jefferson Medical College, and Matilda Henry Mitchell ().

Weir Mitchell, physician, novelist, and poet, was born in Philadelphia on 15 February Mitchell was the son of John Kearsley Mitchell (), a physician and lecturer at Jefferson Medical College, and Matilda Henry Mitchell (). Hugh Wynne sold over one-half million copies and is often regarded as Mitchell's best book.

In the foreword to S. Weir Mitchell: Novelist and Physician, Ernest Earnest writes that Mitchell's "Hugh Wynne was compared to Henry Esmond, his Ode on a Lycian Tomb to Lycidas. Anne Stiles is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Medical Humanities at Saint Louis University.

She is the author of Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge UP, ) and the editor of Neurology and Literature, (Palgrave, ).

She is currently co-editing the volume Literature, Neurology, and Neuroscience: History and Modern. Silas Weir Mitchell was an American physician and writer. During the Civil War he had charge of nervous injuries and maladies at Turners Lane Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the close of the war became a specialist in neurology/5(2).

Silas Weir Mitchell (Janu – January 4, ) was an American physician and writer. Quotes []. I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics. Sorry, our data provider has not provided any external links therefore we are unable to provide a link to the full text.

S. Weir Mitchell, – Philadelphia's Literary Physician. Nancy Cervetti “Cervetti has produced an elegantly written, incredibly detailed, and impressively comprehensive narrative of Mitchell’s journey from the insecure son of an overbearing father to the highly esteemed and influential researcher and clinician in physiology and neurology to a kind of medical public intellectual.S.

Weir Mitchell (), American physician, scientist, novelist, and poet.Ernest Earnest, S. Weir Mitchell—Novelist and Physician (Philadelphia, ), emphasizes his literary achievements.

Mitchell’s scientific and medical work is extensively considered in the volume by Richard Walter (see above). This book also contains a full bibliography .