Friday!

[erastes]

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1. I need help. Yes yes, you all knew that. But I mean research-wise. Where on EARTH can I find historical medical information? I'm trying to find medical opinion on amnesia in 1860. What I've got so far is a battleground doctor who other than “he’s banged his temporal fossa and has lost his memory” (give that man a Nobel Prize) he’s not going any further – however my protag is now travelling to Berlin and there will be learned doctors there on the “cutting edge” of the field – however I’ve been Googling all day it seems and I can’t find anything useful. Not even whether temporal fossa is not etymologically anachronistic .  All I know is that “amnesia” is correct.

Anyone have any bookmarks that could help?

2. I hate that Masterchef call the women “mother of three” as if that defines them-even when they have jobs.

3. God Graham Norton looks a bit over botox-ed!  scary!

4. I have a real phobia about opening champagne/cava bottles.  I really have.  Nothing awful has ever happened to me, but I really hate the idea of the cork flying out and taking a finger with it. I have to wrap the wire and the cork in a towel—I’m such a wuss.  And yes, I’m celebrating at last for the good news of last week. :)

5. Thanks to Naomi Woods for this – don’t often like American Chat Show humour and I have no idea who this guy is, but it’s worth watching for the guest stars. The Handsome Men’s Club

Comments

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

1. Have you tried little_details? Finding information can sometimes be a pain in the ass there, but it's where I've turned for ideas on occasion.

[tiggothy.livejournal.com]

Have you tried the BMJ archive? (http://www.bmj.com/archive/) Looks like you don't need to subscribe... I also remember (though I didn't take the course) that the GCSE History taught at my old school included "history of medicine" - would you be able to find GCSE or A Level course books at a local library? (I'm thinking of A Level Psychology, I know they look at the the way theories have developed over time about some things)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'd love to, but I posted ONCE on there, and was dumped on so hard by the mods for "daring to post there without googling first" (and you know me, i'll try every venue before i'll even ask my flist) that I'll never go back.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you - i'll try that!

[geishawhite.livejournal.com]

Can probably find out the medical info - one of my tutors specialises in 'madness and medicine' which I think amnesia would come under

[geishawhite.livejournal.com]

Also have you got access to JStor/Athens/Metalib/academic journals? They're pretty useful with specifics.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

no - sadly!

[geishawhite.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Well, I'll see what I can track down. Will distract me from the new Cold War research for a bit.

[catsintheattic.livejournal.com]

I searched "brain anatomy atlas 19th century" on Google and was linked to a site, where someone seemed to collect pictures of brain anatomy, quoting a "Braune's 19th century anatomy atlas". Maybe you can take it from here?

I also found this bit of information about anatomical books, though the date is too late: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713675244&db=all

Maybe the names will help to do some further research?

This is another one about books and researchers of that time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anatomy_in_the_19th_century

And the case of Phineas Gage was famous - it might give a good impression about brain science at that time, even though his injury was different and resulted in a change of personality rather than memory loss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

Temporal fossa is a modern term - anatomists used Latin and Greek and do so still today, as the very traditional people they are. :-) Though a learned scientist would probably prefer the term "fossa temporalis". Fossa means a plane that is caved in a little, and would be used for various parts of the anatomy. Anatomists used the look of things a lot to come up with names for them. Temporalis means that is located at the side of the skull. A hit there could also easily affect the speech, because the speech processing and producing parts of the brain are in the left temporal lobe.

Erm ... I hope some of that helps a little.

In any case: good luck with your research!

[geishawhite.livejournal.com]

There's an easier way of doing this which is to give you access so you can run specific searches. Is there a way of messaging directly?

[jenre.livejournal.com]

There's a medical museum in Leeds and they have a page on their website where you can ask questions which might be useful to you.

The website is here: http://www.thackraymuseum.org/

Hope it helps :).

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

I feel a bit daft commenting just to say that I don't know anything. But I'm not ignoring you, I'm just being useless :)

[spindriftdancer.livejournal.com]

@5- Whoah. Surprise ending on that one! LOL. (lucky bum, he is)
@4- Well, if it's considered complex machinery, maybe you should get someone else to open the second bottle... especially after the first has been drunk (:
@3- I don't know who that is, and it probably doesn't matter.
@2- Heh. No kidding.
@1- Sorry, can't help. What little I know is from @2k years previous. I'm pretty sure they made some advances in the intervening years ;p

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

He banged his head and forgot stuff. Can't really help I dont think. Slow recovery of information. Might not remember anything at all or in dribs and drabs. Sometimes more serious head injuries don't show up for a good few hours...then you is dead.

[angrboda]

In Copenhagen there's a museum about medical history. They supposedly have a vast collection that isn't even on display at the museum.

http://www.museion.ku.dk/besoeg.aspx

Perhaps if you contact them, they might be able to help you.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh that's great - that gives me loads of leads - thank you! I can't believe how hard this is to research.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

LOL! It's weirdly hard to research - worse than blooming boats! :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you dear!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

:)

[angrboda]

Boats that bloom? ;) Wow, that must look awesome!!! :p

[katecotoner.livejournal.com]

You could always email one of the Centres for the History of Medicine. I used to work at the one attached to Birmingham med school and we used to answer author queries from time to time (http://www.medicine.bham.ac.uk/histmed/). There's also the one at UCL (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/).