See also:

• SILAS (fl. A.D. 50)

SILAS See also:

• WEIR (from O. Eng. wer, a dam; cognate with werian, to defend, guard; cf. Ger. Wehr, defence)
• WEIR, ROBERT WALTER (1803-1889)

WEIR See also:

• MITCHELL
• MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT (1822—1908)
• MITCHELL, MARIA (1818—1889)
• SILAS WEIR MITCHELL (1830-)
• MITCHELL, SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTONE (1792-1855)

MITCHELL (1830-)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American physician and author, son of a See also:

• PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor, See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Kearsley See also:

• MITCHELL
• MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT (1822—1908)
• MITCHELL, MARIA (1818—1889)
• MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR (1830-)
• MITCHELL, SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTONE (1792-1855)

Mitchell (1798-1858), was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in Philadelphia on the 15th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February .183o . Ha studied at the university of See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, and received the degree of M.D. at See also:

• JEFFERSON
• JEFFERSON, JOSEPH (1829-1905)
• JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826)

Jefferson Medical See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College in 185o . During the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War he had See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of See also:

• NERVOUS

nervous injuries and maladies at See also:

• TURNER, CHARLES (1773–1857)
• TURNER, JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM (1775–1851)
• TURNER, NAT (1800-1831)
• TURNER, SHARON (1768-1847)
• TURNER, SIR JAMES (1615–1686)
• TURNER, WILLIAM (d. 1568)

Turner's See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the war became a specialist in nervous diseases . In this See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field See also:

• WEIR (from O. Eng. wer, a dam; cognate with werian, to defend, guard; cf. Ger. Wehr, defence)
• WEIR, ROBERT WALTER (1803-1889)

Weir Mitchell's name became prominently associated with his introduction of the " See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest cure," subsequently taken up by the medical See also:

• WORLD

world, for nervous diseases, particularly See also:

• HYSTERIA

hysteria; the treatment consisting primarily in See also:

• ISOLATION

isolation, confinement to See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed, dieting and See also:

• MASSAGE

massage . In 1863 he wrote a See also:

• CLEVER

clever See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story, combining physiological and psychological problems, entitled " The See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

Case of See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George Dedlow," in the See also:

• ATLANTIC

Atlantic Monthly . Thenceforward Dr Weir Mitchell, as a writer, divided his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention between professional and See also:

• LITERARY

literary pursuits . In the former field he produced monographs on See also:

• RATTLESNAKE

rattlesnake See also:

• POISON

poison, on intellectual See also:

• HYGIENE (Fr. hygiene, from Gr. ir'taivety, to be healthy)

hygiene, on injuries to the nerves, on See also:

• NEURASTHENIA (Gr. veuupov, nerve, and lur%veta, weakness)

neurasthenia, on nervous diseases of See also:

• WOMEN

women, on the effects of gunshot wounds upon the nervous See also:

• SYSTEM

system, and on the relations between See also:

• NURSE (a shortened form of the earlier " nourice," adapted through the French from Lat. nutrix, nu/rite, to nourish)

nurse, physician, and patient; while in the latter he wrote juvenile stories, several volumes of respectable See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, and See also:

• PROSE

prose fiction of varying merit, which, however, gave him a leading See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place among the American authors of the close of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . His See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical novels, See also:

• HUGH
• HUGH, ST

Hugh Wynne, See also:

• FREE

Free Quaker (1897), The Adventures of See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois (1898) and The Red City (1909), take high See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank in this See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of fiction .