On the Diseases and Derangements of the Nervous System ...

On the Diseases and Derangements of the Nervous System ...
Author: Marshall Hall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1841
Genre: Cerebrovascular system
ISBN:

Hall's studies on reflex action remain one of his most significant contributions. He firmly established the concept of the fundamental of neurophysiology and in this text applies it to the diseases of the nervous system.

Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary Todd Lincoln
Author: Jean H. Baker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1987
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393305869

A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary Todd (1818-1882) was raised in a world of frontier violence. Subjected to her first abandonment at age six when her mother died, Mary later fled a hostile stepmother for Springfield, where she met and, after a stormy romance, married the raw Illinois attorney, Abraham Lincoln. For twenty-five years the Lincolns forged opposing temperaments into a tolerant, loving marriage. Mary was at her husband's side on the night of his assassination, and never recovered from that greatest in a series of grievous abandonments. The desperate measures she took to win the acknowledgment she sought all her life led finally to the shock of a public insanity hearing instigated by her eldest son. In this elegant biography, Jean Baker uses previously untapped letters and documents to portray a woman whose will carried her across the recognized boundaries of female behavior. Book jacket.