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.
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