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See also: American physician and author, son of a See also: Philadelphia See also: doctor, See also: John Kearsley
See also: Mitchell (1798-1858), was See also: born in Philadelphia on the 15th of See also: February .183o
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Ha studied at the university of Pennsylvania in that city, and received the degree of M.D. at Jefferson Medical See also: College in 185o
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During the See also: Civil War he had See also: charge of See also: nervous injuries and maladies at See also: Turner's Lane Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the close of the war became a specialist in nervous diseases
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In this See also: field
See also: Weir Mitchell's name became prominently associated with his introduction of the " rest cure," subsequently taken up by the medical See also: world, for nervous diseases, particularly See also: hysteria; the treatment consisting primarily in See also: isolation, confinement to See also: bed, dieting and See also: massage
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In 1863 he wrote a See also: clever See also: short See also: story, combining physiological and psychological problems, entitled " The See also: Case of See also: George Dedlow," in the See also: Atlantic Monthly
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Thenceforward Dr Weir Mitchell, as a writer, divided his See also: attention between professional and See also: literary pursuits
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In the former field he produced monographs on See also: rattlesnake See also: poison, on intellectual hygiene, on injuries to the nerves, on neurasthenia, on nervous diseases of See also: women, on the effects of gunshot wounds upon the nervous See also: system, and on the relations between nurse, physician, and patient; while in the latter he wrote juvenile stories, several volumes of respectable verse, and See also: prose fiction of varying merit, which, however, gave him a leading place among the American authors of the close of the 19th century
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His See also: historical novels, Hugh Wynne, See also: Free Quaker (1897), The Adventures of See also: Francois (1898) and The Red City (1909), take high See also: rank in this branch of fiction
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