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	The Yellow Wallpaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Weir Mitchell was born in Philadelphia in 1829.
		Mitchell was observed to be somewhat detached from these female patients that he treated, and had little sympathetic expression for them (Walter, 132).
		Rather, Mitchell had a negative attitude regarding the female hysteric, and he exhibited this value judgment by saying of them, "Nature had wisely prohibited this being from increasing her breed" (Walter, 132).
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~clit121/AmesYel/weir.html (313 words)

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		Weir Mitchell, physician, novelist, and poet, was born in Philadelphia on 15 February 1829.
		S. Weir Mitchell entered the University of Pennsylvania at the age of fifteen but withdrew during his senior year when he became ill. In 1848, he enrolled in Jefferson Medical College, and by March 1850, at the age of twenty- one, Mitchell had completed his medical degree.
		Weir Mitchell's personal papers are in Series 1; of special interest are items pertaining to Mitchell's estate, including papers left on his desk at his death, a will written by Mitchell just weeks before he died, and appraisals of his wines, books, and china.
	www.collphyphil.org /FIND_AID/hist/histswm1.htm (6664 words)

	S. Weir Mitchell: The Early Years
		Neurologist and novelist S. Weir Mitchell was one of the most prominent physicians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Mitchell and Reichert’s studies were conducted on the rattlesnake, cobra, water moccasin, and copperhead.
		Mitchell and his colleagues wrote that no such cases of burning pain “can be successfully treated without the frequent aid of narcotics” (Mitchell, Morehouse and Keen, 1864).
	www.ampainsoc.org /pub/bulletin/mar03/hist1.htm (2946 words)

	Famous Men Authors - S. Weir Mitchell
		Weir Mitchell, one of the six sons of Dr. John Kearsley Mitchell, was born in Philadelphia on February 16, 1829.
		Mitchell and his associates made a deep study not only of the effects of certain wounds but also of the effects of environment.
		Mitchell is not a poet of the "golden clime" of which Tennyson speaks ; he has simply found in poetry the fittest vehicle for the expression of some attractive and stirring ideas.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles27n/famous-authors-9.shtml (1673 words)

	Philadelphia Reflections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A Toast To Silas Weir Mitchell, MD ilas Weir Mitchell lived to be an old man during the Nineteenth Century, when it was unusual to get very old.
		Mitchell's patient Andrew Carnegie donated the funds to build a new building for the College of Physicians when Mitchell was its President.
		Mitchell suggested that the money be given to raise the salaries of college professors, thus demonstrating a certain lack of foresight about the future direction of college tuitions.
	www.philadelphia-reflections.com /reflections.php?content=blogs_alpha/toast_silas_weir_mitchell.html (360 words)

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		Mitchell described the targeted population for his Rest Cure as "chiefly women of the class well known to every physicianÑnervous women, who as a rule are thin and lack blood.
		Silas Weir Mitchell was born in Philadelphia in 1829.
		Mitchell was at home in literary circles and was on familiar terms with some of the leading writers, historians and artists of his dayÑboth men and women.
	www.amtamassage.org /journal/winter03_journal/alookback.htm (2926 words)

	Silas Weir Mitchell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was son of a physician, John Kearsley Mitchell (1798-1858), and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		In this field Weir Mitchells name became prominently associated with his introduction of the rest cure, subsequently taken up by the medical world, for nervous diseases, particularly hysteria; the treatment consisting primarily in isolation, confinement to bed, dieting and massage.
		Thenceforward Dr Weir Mitchell, as a writer, divided his attention between professional and literary pursuits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/S._Weir_Mitchell (245 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Mitchell Silas Weir
		Mitchell, Silas Weir (1829-1914), distinguished American physician and neurologist who contributed to the knowledge of peripheral nerves and...
		Mitchell, city and seat of Davison County, in southeastern South Dakota.
		Mitchell, Maria (1818-89), American astronomer, born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and privately educated.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Mitchell_Silas_Weir.html (107 words)

	JEFFLINE: TJU Archives Exhibit - "10 Notable Jefferson Alumni, S. Weir Mitchell" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While renowned as a clinician and neurologist, S. Weir Mitchell was also celebrated as an author as famous for his novels and poetry as for his contributions to medical literature.
		Mitchell's medical studies during his lifetime ranged from nerve injuries to sleeping disorders, from ailuophobia (morbid fear of cats) to snake venom, and from the physchological effects of amputations to reflex paralysis.
		While Mitchell wrote poetry and prose during most of his adult life, it was not until the late 1890s that it began to overtake his medical writings.
	jeffline.tju.edu /SML/archives/exhibits/notable_alumni/s_weir_mitchell.html (395 words)

	Silas Weir Mitchell (www.whonamedit.com)
		Weir Mitchell was accustomed to wealth and cultural pursuits, and was deeply religious.
		Mitchell also investigated the physiology of the cerebellum and the cutaneous distribution of nerves, described the cremasteric reflex, and with Morris James Lewis (1852-) gave an early account of the phenomenon of sensory reinforcement of the deep tendon reflexes.
		Mitchell contracted influenza and during the illness read the proof of his poem Bar Abbas, then lapsed into a delirium in which he is said to have re-enacted operating on the wounded at Gettysburg.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/959.html (2673 words)

	PainOnline
		Weir Mitchell was a third generation physician and was as a boy spent many hours fascinated by his father's experiments.
		Mitchell was known not only for his brilliance in the medical field, but also for his literary creativity, both poetry and novels.
		When Mitchell arrived, rather than ask the secretary to announce his arrival, he provided the secretary with a list of imaginary symptoms for a supposed new patient and instructed the secretary to tell Charcot that the patient was soon leaving for America.
	www.painonline.org /mitchell.htm (1307 words)

	S. Weir Mitchell -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		U.S. physician and author S. Weir Mitchell excelled in novels of psychology and historical romance.
		Silas Weir Mitchell was born on Feb. 15, 1829, in Philadelphia, Pa. After graduating from Jefferson Medical College in 1850, Mitchell spent a year in Paris specializing in neurology.
		The letter S may have started as a picture sign of a sandy hill country, as in Egyptian hieroglyphic writing (1), or of a “tooth” (peak) of a rock, such as is found in a very early Semitic writing which was used in about 1500 BC on the Sinai Peninsula (2).
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9330253?tocId=9330253 (800 words)

	SILAS WEIR MITCHELL - LoveToKnow Article on SILAS WEIR MITCHELL
		(1830), American physician and author, son of a Philadelphia doctor, John Kearsley Mitchell (I7981858), was born in Philadelphia on the 15th of February 1830.
		H~ studied at the university of Pennsylvania in that city, and received the degree of M.D. at Jefferson Medical College in 1850.
		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 nervous diseases.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MI/MITCHELL_SILAS_WEIR.htm (207 words)

	Art and Medicine Bibliography, Mitchell
		Weir Mitchell to head the 400 bed Turner’s Lane Army Hospital which he established in Philadelphia specifically to treat those soldiers whose wounds were complicated by nervous disease.
		"The important labors of Mitchell, Morehouse, and Keen in the vast field presented by the organization of a hospital for diseases and injuries of nerves cannot be seen to better advantage or be better appreciated than in their clinical observations upon the remote effects of nerve injuries."
		Mitchell, S. Weir: Injuries of nerves and their consequences, Philadelphia: J. Lippincott & Co., 1872.
	www.artandmedicine.com /biblio/authors/Mitchell.html (941 words)

	Silas Weir Mitchell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was son of a physician, John Kearsley Mitchell (1798-1858), and was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		He studied at the (A university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) University of Pennsylvania in that city, and received the degree of M.D. at Jefferson Medical College in 1850.
		Mitchell's disease ((Click link for more info and facts about erythromelalgia) erythromelalgia) is named after him.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/silas_weir_mitchell.htm (260 words)

	Phantom Limb and Causalgia: The Tragic Enigmas
		In 1872, American neurologist S. Weir Mitchell described a bizarre symptom complex resulting from wounds to peripheral nerves in his book, Injuries of Nerves and Their Consequences (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott): "Perhaps few persons who are not physicians can realize the influence which long-continued and unendurable pain may have on both body and mind.
		Mitchell saw a large number of patients who had been wounded in the Civil War and suffered from a chronic affliction he called causalgia.
		As with Mitchell in the Civil War, Leriche's opportunity to study these phenomena came during World War I, when he saw many soldiers with peripheral nerve damage.
	www.library.ucla.edu /libraries/biomed/his/painexhibit/panel4.htm (1179 words)

	Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir: Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir: Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
		In his long essay, essentially a compilation of case studies, he further characterizes these patients and outlines the treatment which he found to be unfailingly successful in returning them to normal activity.
		Mitchell's "rest cure" became the rage for upper class American women who did not seem to be thriving in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/mitchell1445-des-.html (327 words)

	§28. S. Weir Mitchell. XI. The Later Novel: Howells. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge ...
		Mitchell’s own favourite among his books, The Adventures of François, Foundling, Thief, Juggler, and Fencing-Master during the French Revolution (1898), stands as close to the American stories as did Paris to the city of Franklin in the later eighteenth century.
		Revolutionary these narratives are only by virtue of the time in which they take place, for their sympathies are almost wholly with the aristocrats in France, with the respectable and Federalist classes in America.
		By the time The Red City appeared its type was losing vogue, but Hugh Wynne and The Adventures of François came on the high tide of the remarkable outburst of historical romance just preceding the Spanish War.
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	TJU Archives: Finding Aids - S. Weir Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born in Philadelphia on 16 February 1829, S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) was the son of John Kearsley (Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College, 1841-1858) and Sarah Matilda (Henry) Mitchell.
		Mitchell gained attention for his "rest cure," which advocated bed rest, massages, isolation and the avoidance of disturbing events, as well as a very rich and fattening diet.
		During his career, Mitchell also became a major critic of asylums and institutional psychiatry; he contributed to medical literature in several fields.
	jeffline.tju.edu /SML/archives/collections/finding_aids/mitchell.html (375 words)

	Silas Weir Mitchell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He studied at the University of Pennsylvania in that city, and received the degree of M.D. at Jefferson Medical College in 1850.
		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.
		Works by Silas Weir Mitchell at Project Gutenberg
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silas_Weir_Mitchell (245 words)

	inMotion: Capturing The Phantom
		Weir Mitchell published the first article on the topic under a pseudonym so as to not risk facing ridicule from his colleagues.
		Since Weir Mitchell's time all types of conjecture regarding phantom pain, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, has been printed.
		Today, thousands of such stories have the medical profession, unlike in Weir Mitchell's day, acknowledging what these people feel is real — and often debilitating.
	www.amputee-coalition.org /inmotion/sep_oct_00/phantom.html (3222 words)

	languagehat.com: FORLOIN.
		Weir Mitchell was quite a character; this medical-eponym site has an extensive biography and bibliography (and even quotes a couple of his poems), and includes this striking passage:
		Weir Mitchell was a legendary character whose portraits show him as a handsome man. His rather gaunt features and bearded face make one readily understand why he was likened by many people at the time to «Uncle Sam».
		He was asked to see a patient who was thought to be dying, and soon sent all the attendants and assistants from the room, emerging a little later.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001133.php (360 words)

	DR. SILAS WEIR MITCHELL (1829-1914) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mitchell was of Scottish origin but he was born in Philadelphia.
		His experiences in the Civil War brought him to fame because his writings on nerve and related injuries became classics as did his description of causalgia with William Keen and G.R. Morehouse they created another great work on "Reflex Paralysis".
		Research and reporting on post paralytic chorea, erythromelalgia (Weir Mitchell’s disease) and cerebellar function followed.
	www.uic.edu /depts/mcne/founders/page0062.html (107 words)

	American RSDHope
		In October of 1864 the first dent in the armor of RSDS was made.
		Weir Mitchell and his associates G.R. Moorheouse and W.W. Keen published a book called "Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves".
		Three years later, Mitchell first used the term Causalgia (from the Greek kausis-burning and algos-pain).
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	Weir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Weir Group is a human capital solutions company that helps its clients optimize their talent acquisition, development and retention systems.
		Weir was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in the suburb of Atherton, Known for his raspy, deeper tone, Weir sings covers by Bob Dylan,
		A fish weir or fish trap is a step forward in fishing technology, used in North America for the past several thousand years.
	aliveinfo.com /q/weir.html (895 words)

	MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR (1830-) - Online Information article about MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR (1830-)
		MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR (1830-) - Online Information article about MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR (1830-)
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	Women's Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Weir Mitchell, and convince him of the error of his ways." Hearsay has it that he was duly converted: "I sent him a copy as soon as it came out, but got no response.
		As Juliet Mitchell puts it, "Hysterics tell tales and fabricates stories--particularly for doctors who will listen." But to read "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a literary manifestation of transference reduces figure in the text to Gilman herself; recuperating text as life, the diagnostic reading represses its literariness.
		John, the rationalist physician-husband in "The Yellow Wallpaper," diagnoses his wife as suffering from "temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency" and threatens to send her to Weir Mitchell.
	www.dac.neu.edu /womens.studies/jacobus.htm (5629 words)

	Amazon.com -zShops: Hugh Wynne - Free Quaker by S. Weir Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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