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Silas Weir Mitchell

Affiliations: 
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States 
Area:
Neurology, pain
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(1829–1914)
http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/view/search/what/Portraits/Mitchell,%20Silas%20Weir%201829-1914/
Studied the effects of gunshot wounds upon the nervous system -- coined the term causalgia, and studied phantom limb pain. Additional institution: Turner Lane Hospital

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Claude Bernard grad student 1851-1852 Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu de Paris

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William Osler grad student Johns Hopkins Medical School

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Mitchell SW. (1914) The medical department in the civil war Journal of the American Medical Association. 1445-1450
Mitchell SW. (1887) Philadelphia neurological society, philadelphia medical jurisprudence society Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 14: 467-469
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