Rowland, Lewis P.

The legacy of Tracy J. Putnam and H. Houston Merritt : modern neurology in the United States / / by: Oxford University Press - Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2009. - x, 159 p., [16] p. of plates ill. 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dilantin: the great achievement of Tracy Jackson Putnam and H. Houston Merritt -- Putnam, a true Boston Brahmin -- Boston City Hospital: cradle of modern neurology in the United States -- Putnam moves from Harvard and Boston to Columbia and New York City: in harm's way -- Putnam at the New York Neurological Institute: clinical activity and vulnerability -- The Jewish question and political liberalism -- Putnam establishes basic and translational neuroscience at Columbia -- Putnam gets the boot: how it was done -- Phenytoin and the road from psychoanalysis to psychopharmacology -- H. Houston Merritt, 1902-1979 -- Merritt moves to New York: Montefiore and Columbia: another tale of two hospitals -- Putnam in California -- Merritt's last days.

9780195379525 (alk. paper) 0195379527

2008018981

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Putnam, Tracy Jackson, 1894-1975.
Merritt, H. Houston 1902-1979.
Putnam, Tracy Jackson, 1894-1975.
Merritt, H. Houston 1902-1979.


Boston City Hospital. Neurological Unit --History--20th century.
Neurological Institute of New York--History--20th century.


Neurologists--United States--Biography.
History of Medicine
Phenytoin--History--20th century.
Neurology--United States--Biography.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Neurology--history--United States.
Neurosciences--history--United States.
Phenytoin--history--United States.

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RC339.5 / .R69 2009

616.80092/2

61 (09) / R-85

2008 L-770 WZ 100 / P993r 2009

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