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In the sub-headings of this index, John Hughlings Jackson's name is abbreviated to JHJ. The journals in which his publications appear are indexed only when mentioned in the editorial text.

A

amaurosis 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 49, 50, 54, 72

anaesthesia, effects of 132

Anderson, Tempest (William Charles Anderson's son) 4

Anderson, William Charles 4

antagonism, physiological 139

aphasia 22, 24–5, 50, 70, 124

    Broca's 25

    hemiplegia and 25, 53, 62, 95

    symptoms 23, 30, 72, 90

aphasic writing 72

apoplexy 39, 42, 56, 64, 69, 80

causes 77, 79

Apothecaries Act(1815) 4

asphyxia 124, 132

ataxy, locomotor 46, 48, 49, 96, 98

    Friedreich's 122

    symptoms 96, 100

Atkinson, R33, 84

auditory vertigo see Ménière's disease

automatism 69

autopsy reports 78, 87

B

Bain, Alexander 21, 30

Barnes, Robert 54, 59

Barnes, Stanley 33, 135

Bastian, H Charlton 112, 129

Beevor, Charles E33, 117, 118

Bell, Charles 16

Bell–Magendie hypothesis 16

Bennett, A Hughes 115

blepharospasm 90

Bologna University 9

Brain 8, 22, 32, 33 the brain

cerebellum 39, 58, 62, 65, 68, 90, 95, 119, 132, 137

    cerebral arteries 25, 49, 87

    cerebral lobes 42

    cerebral localization 15–21 the brain (cont'd)

cerebral veins 64

cerebrum 58, 132

cortex 12–13, 17, 18, 25, 27, 102; basal ganglia and 19

as equipotentia l13–14

functions 13–14, 25, 27

lateralization of 14

medulla oblongata 52, 66

movement centres 67, 70

pons varolii 39, 40

striatum 13, 14, 25, 50

syphilis and 54, 55, 59, 67, 69, 73, 74, 89, 95

see also cerebral …

brain abscesses/cysts 37, 68, 124

brain disease 42, 46, 50, 64, 80, 83, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, 112, 115

recovery from 101

brain lesions 86, 89

brain/mind relationship see concomitance doctrine

brain surgery 110

brain tumours 27, 46, 50, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77, 84, 87, 95, 100, 102, 118, 137

convulsions and 102, 107

    diagnosis 70

    haemorrhage from 58

    removal of 113, 116

Bravais, François 15

breathing difficulties 124

Bright, Richard 14

Bright's disease 27

British Association for the Advancement of Science 16, 54, 55

British Medical Association (BMA) 29–30, 62, 102, 117

British Medical Journal (BMJ) 7, 11, 20, 28, 32, 33

Broadbent, Sir William 136

JHJ's obituary by 138

his Hughlings Jackson lecture (1903) 30, 31

Broca, Pau l7

Broca's aphasia 25

Brown-Séquard, Charles Edouard 6, 9, 25

    his cases 39, 40

    JHJ and 6, 9

    working methods 9

Bucknill, John Charles 8

Buzzard, Thomas 90, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102

C

cancer 112

Cartesian philosophy 13–14

cataracts 118

cerebral apoplexy 69

cerebral haemorrhage 50, 56, 62, 78

cerebral paresis/paralysis 90, 137

see also brain …

cerebral pathology 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 73, 74, 77

Chambers, Robert: Vestiges of the natural history of creation 29

Charcot, Jean-Martin 15, 27, 72

chemistry, JHJ's interest in 13

chloroform, effects of 132

cholera epidemic, London (1866) 7

chorea 42, 45, 46, 51, 52, 70, 76, 81

causes 108

in a dog 64

embolic theory of 86

hemi-chorea 55

in pregnancy 54, 55, 59

Clarke, J Lockhart 31, 46, 52, 66

clinical neurophysiology 3

evolutionary 3, 8, 19–20, 30, 106, 112, 113

Clinical Society of London 60, 62, 112

Transactions 32

cocaine use 124

cold, sensation of 139

Collier, James S33, 132

Colman, Walter S33, 131

compensation principle, of the nervous system 26–7

concomitance doctrine 7, 15, 20–23, 24, 30

convulsions 12–14, 17, 53, 56, 60, 61, 64, 70, 76, 110, 119, 135

brain tumours and 102, 107

epileptiform see epileptiform …

partial 64, 69, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 97, 102

syphilis and 89

tongue-biting in 60

unilatera l12, 14, 54, 55

cramp, treadler's 121

Crichton-Browne, James 8

D

Dade, Elizabeth see Jackson, Elizabeth Dade

Darwin, Charles: On the origin of species 19, 28

deafness see hearing loss

Descartes, René see Cartesian philosophy

diphtheria 27

Donders, [Frans Cornelis] 103

drunkenness 62, 73

Du Bois-Reymond, Emil 30

Dunsmure, [James] 127

E

the ear, diseases of 68, 69, 75, 87, 104, 124

see also hearing loss

Edinburgh Medical Journal 32

Edinburgh University 9

education, JHJ on physiological aspects of 64

embolism 25, 108

Epidemiological Society 102

epilepsy 12–13, 45, 58, 68, 70, 74, 75, 77, 78, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 115, 118, 125, 126

actions performed during/after 84, 87, 88

causes 12, 13, 19, 41

diagnosis 8, 92, 93

effects of see post-epileptic states below

focal 3, 8; see also Jacksonian below

in guinea-pigs 110, 114

hearing loss and 84, 125

inverted compensation concept in 26–7

Jacksonian 8, 13–15, 17, 18, 27

mental disease and 82, 83, 116, 117

migraine and 80

partial 8

post-epileptic states 22, 23, 98, 99, 116, 117

symptoms 12, 14, 40, 41, 72, 84, 96, 117, 125, 131, 132, 133

syphilis and 37

epileptic aphemia 43

epileptic discharge concept 12–13

epileptic mania 72, 79

epileptiform amaurosis 56, 72

epileptiform convulsions/seizures 40, 41, 43, 51, 52, 58, 63, 69, 70, 90, 97, 99, 100

effects of 96, 97

symptoms 44, 48

epileptiform convulsions/seizures (cont'd)

unilatera l44

ether, effects of 132

evolutionary neurophysiology 3, 8, 19–20, 30, 106, 112, 113, 114

of the unconscious 21–4

the eye 104, 124, 139

hemiplegia, effects of 58, 125, 132

lateral deviation of 48, 58, 125

locomotor ataxy and 96, 100

optic thalamus 50

rotation of 99, 103

see also ophthalmology; optic neuritis; vision

eye examinations 27, 42

eyelid, innervation of 124

F

facial monoplegia 112

facial palsy 12

Faraday, Michae l12

Ferrier, David 8, 30, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 89

fits 127, 135

see also epilepsy

Flourens, Pierre 13–14

focal epilepsy/lesion 3, 8, 17

see also Jacksonian epilepsy

Friedreich's ataxy 122

fright, effects of 46

G

Gall, Franz Josef 9

Galloway, James 33, 122

gastric problems 98

Glasgow University 9

Gowers, [William R] 33, 104, 108

Graves's disease 111

Greenblatt, Samuel H31

Gunn, Marcus 33

H

haemorrhagic infarction see pulmonary apoplexy

Hall, Marshall 16

Hamilton, William 30

Harveian Society 49, 92, 97, 110,

JHJ as president 8

head injuries, epilepsy caused by 41

hearing loss 30, 48, 65, 75, 80

see also the ear

heart disease 11, 69

valvular 24–5, 43, 45

heat, sensation of 139

hemianaesthesia 78

hemianopsia 112

hemikinesis 79

hemiplegia 7, 11, 12, 17, 25, 43, 45, 46, 69, 73, 74, 78, 84, 87, 125

aphasia and 25, 53, 62, 95

double 122

eyes, effects on 58, 125, 132

recovery from 73, 76, 121

speech loss and 43, 46, 49, 73

symptoms 122, 132

syphilis and 63

temporary 40, 90, 97

Hitzig, Eduard 8, 13, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83

Holmes, Gordon 31

Horsley, Victor 110

Hughlings, John (JHJ's maternal grandfather) 3

Hughlings, Sarah see Jackson, Sarah

Hughlings Jackson, John see Jackson, John Hughlings

Hunterian Society 64, 121, 122

Hutchinson, Jonathan 5, 6

JHJ and 5–6, 7, 28, 34

on JHJ's crisis of intention 28

as a medical reporter 6, 33

Huxley, Thomas Henry 21, 30

I

ideas, as imperative 128

Illustrated London News 32

inhibition(s) 20, 115

insanity see mental disease

International Medical Congress, 1881, Transactions32

J

Jackson, Elizabeth Dade (Mrs John Hughlings Jackson) (JHJ's wife) 7, 8

Jackson, James (JHJ's great-uncle) 4

Jackson, John Hughlings (JHJ)

as an agnostic 17

bust of, at London Hospital 138

career 5, 6–7; his crisis of intention 28

character 24, 28, 34

his collaborators 31–2

Jackson, John Hughlings (JHJ) (cont'd)

death 9; obituary by Sir William Broadbent 138

education 3, 4, 28; medical 4, 6; surgical 4–5

experimental work 27, 42

family 3–4, 5, 7, 28, 29

financial position 5, 28

honorary degrees 9

impact/influence 3, 7, 8

lectures 7, 10, 27, 29–30, 69, 80, 92, 95, 96, 122, 131, 136; Bowman 27, 108, 109; Croonian 8, 9, 20, 22, 106, 107; Goulstonian 7, 9, 12, 57; at London Hospital 6, 10; Lumleian 8–9, 13, 119

life 3–9, 28

in London 5–6, 28

marriage 7

as a medical reporter 6, 9, 33

philosophy, his interest in 28–30

as a physician 3, 6, 29, 34

reading habits 29

reputation see impact/influence above

reviews by 61, 108

testimonials to 126, 127

his writings 29, 30–34; reviews of 74, 75, 83

in York/Yorkshire 3, 4, 5, 13, 16

Jackson, Samuel (JHJ's father) 3, 5

financial position 5, 28

Jackson, Sarah (née Hughlings) (JHJ's mother) 3, 4

Jackson, Thomas (JHJ's brother) 4, 5, 28

Jacksonian compensation see compensation principle

Jacksonian epilepsy 8, 13–15, 17, 18, 27

joking, psychology of 113, 116

Journal of Mental Science 32

Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology 32

K

keratitis, interstitial 42

knee-jerks 121, 122, 124, 125, 126, 129

Kussmaul, [Adolf] 126

L

Lancet 7, 20, 32, 33

language 30, 48

intellectual/emotional 25, 48

physiology of 54, 55

language (cont'd)

spoken see speech …

written 25, 49, 125

language centre, in the brain 7, 25

Laycock, Thomas 4, 21, 30

JHJ and 4, 16

on reflex actions 16, 17

Leeds University 9

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 21, 30

Lewes, G H 22

London Hospital 54, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91

JHJ at 5, 7, 52, 53; as pathology lecturer 6

JHJ's lecture at 10

JHJ's retirement from 9; testimonial to 127

presents JHJ with gold watch 7

London Hospital Gazette 32

London Hospital Reports 7, 10, 24, 32

London Medical Record 10

M

Mackenzie, Frederick 52

Mackenzie, Morell 33, 60

Magendie, François 16

materialism 29, 30

Maudsley, Henry 49

Maunder, Mr (of London Hospital) 68

medical education/training 4–5

Medical Examiner32

Medical Mirror 32

Medical Press and Circular 19, 32, 33

Medical Record 33

Medical Society of London 102, 108, 110, 112, 113, 116, 117, 121

JHJ's Annual Oration to (1877) 27

JHJ as president 8, 34

Proceedings 32

Transactions 33

medical specialization, bias against 9

Medical Times and Gazette 6, 14, 20, 25, 32, 33

Mendel's hypothesis 123

Ménière's disease 65, 72, 80, 93, 96, 136

meningitis, tubercular 78

mental disease 19, 21, 30, 48, 125

causes 49

epilepsy and 82, 83, 116, 117

see alsothe mind

Mercier, Charles 24, 115

metaphysics

Pierre Flourens on 14

JHJ's rejection of 29

of the nervous system 16, 17, 18, 21, 24, 29–30

Metropolitan Free Hospital, London 6

migraine 80, 102

Mill, John Stuart 21, 30

the mind 23, 123

concomitance doctrine of 7, 15, 20–23, 24, 30

post-epileptic behaviour and 22, 23

structure of 21–2

the unconscious 21–4

see also mental disease

Money, Dr Angel 108

monoplegia 112

see also paralysis

Moorfields Eye Hospital, see Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital

Müller, Frederick Max 30

muscular atrophy 52

muscular sense concept 112

N

National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, London 6, 9, 34, 43, 49, 55, 58, 59, 60, 63, 65, 71, 72, 74, 78, 80, 84, 96, 133

JHJ at 6; his retirement from 9

JHJ's bust in hall of 138

necrosis, focal 3

nervous dissolution concept 8, 19, 20, 22–3, 79, 97, 98, 99, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 112, 113, 114

nervous system 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 83, 94, 127

compensation principle of 26–7

concomitance doctrine of 7, 15, 20–23, 24, 30

evolutionary theory of 3, 8, 19–24, 30, 106, 112, 113, 114

functions/functioning of 3, 7, 8, 9–10, 11, 16

JHJ's neurological method 9–11

metaphysics of 16, 17, 18, 21, 24, 29, 30

as a sensorimotor machine 15, 16–17, 18, 20

structure 3, 8, 9–10, 15, 18, 19–20, 26

theories of 9–10

tonic inhibition concept 20

the unconscious 21–2

see also spinal cord …

nervous system, diseases of 44, 51, 52, 57, 58, 60, 63, 68, 77, 79, 84, 86, 102, 117, 127, 136

causes 25, 49

cerebral localization in 15–21

diagnosis 3, 7, 8, 9–10, 13–14; somatopic representation on 13, 14, 15, 17–18

ear disease and 87

ophthalmology and 27, 108, 110

recovery from 25–7, 39, 41, 73, 76

symptoms 3, 9–10, 11, 25, 48, 50, 129; negative/positive 3, 19, 20, 23

see also individual conditions

neuritis, optic 53, 54, 55, 60, 62, 63, 68, 76, 91, 97, 98, 99, 100; double optic 85

neurological fragments (JHJ's) 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 132, 135, 139

Neurological Society of London 112

JHJ as president 9

Hughlings Jackson Lecture 9, 131

neurophysiology see clinical neurophysiology

O

Obstetrical Society of London 54

Transactions 33

odour, as symptom of epileptiform seizures 44, 53, 117

see also smell, sense of

Ophthalmic Review 33

Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom 33, 96, 97, 98, 99, 104, 111, 118

Bowman Lecture 27, 108, 109

JHJ as president 8, 27, 117, 118, 120

Transactions 32

ophthalmology 27, 37, 59, 72, 81, 88, 89, 108, 110, 117, 118

examinations during sleep 42

see also eye … vision

ophthalmoplegia 123

ophthalmoscopes 39, 42, 50, 51, 53, 54, 62, 93, 96

opium poisoning 124

optic neuritis 53, 54, 55, 60, 62, 63, 68, 91, 97, 98, 99, 100

double 85

recovery from 76

Owen, Richard 10

P

Paget, Sir James 4, 9, 127

palsies 51, 52, 60, 67

paralysis 5, 38, 45, 112, 115, 116, 117, 118, 121, 139

causes 12, 16, 97

cerebral 90, 137

hemiplegia see hemiplegia

partial 17–18, 40

in Pott's disease 110

recovery from 25–7

spinal cord injuries and 129, 130

syphilis and 37, 40, 112

Todd's 29

of the tongue 66, 90, 110, 112

pathology 102

cerebral 65, 66, 67, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77

Paton, Leslie 139

Patton, J 33

philosophy

metaphysics 14, 16, 17, 18, 21, 24, 29–30

in Victorian England 29

phonographic recordings, of abnormal speech 121

phrenology 9, 10

physiological antagonism 139

pneumonia 126

poliomyelitis 98

The Polyclinic 32

Popular Science Monthly 33

potassium, iodine of 42

Pott's disease, paraplegia in 110

pregnancy, chorea in 54, 55, 59

psychology 114

of joking 113, 116

ptosis, congenital 124

pulmonary apoplexy 69

pyaemia 54

R

reading, loss of ability to 49

recordings see phonographic recordings

reflex actions 16, 17, 108

La Revue Scientifique de la France … 33

Reynolds, J R: A system of medicine32, 56

rheumatic heart disease 11

rigidity 119, 132

Rivers, W H R 33, 121

Robertson, [Alexander] 86

Rockefeller Medical Library, Institute of Neurology, University College London

JHJ's pamphlets held by 140–45

JHJ's unpublished writings held by 146–50

Ross, James 108

Royal College of Physicians 6

Croonian lecture 8, 9, 20, 22, 30, 106, 107

Goulstonian lecture 7, 9, 12, 57

JHJ as Censor 9; as Council member 9; as Fellow 7

Lumleian lecture 8–9, 13, 119

Royal College of Surgeons 4, 5, 6

Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, JHJ at 5, 6, 7, 27

Reports 7, 32

Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society 81, 108

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions 33

Royal Society, JHJ as Fellow 8

Russell, James S Risien 24, 33, 124, 125

S

St Andrews Medical Graduates' Association Transactions 7–8, 12, 32

St Andrews University MD degree 6, 7

St Bartholomew's Hospital 4–5

Savage, Dr [G H] 115

scarlet fever 39

scientific neurology see nervous system …

sensorimotor machine, nervous system as 15, 16–17, 18, 20

sex, diseases of the nervous system and 49

Sherrington, [Charles Scott] 129

sight see eye …; ophthalmology; vision

Singer, H Douglas 33, 135

smell, sense of 48, 74, 118, 132, 133

smoking see tobacco smoking

somatopic representation, in diagnostic neurology 13, 14, 15, 17–18

the soul see metaphysics

spasm 51, 52, 96, 135

speech see language

speech defects 64, 90, 93, 94, 95

phonographic recordings of 121

speech loss 25, 30, 48, 49, 67, 72, 125, 126

hemiplegia and 43, 45, 46, 49, 73

tongue, paralysis of 66, 110

vocal cord palsy and 67, 110

Spencer, Herbert 19, 21, 29, 30

spinal cord 10, 16

spinal cord disease 39, 40, 52, 99, 124

spinal cord injuries 39, 40, 129, 130

symptoms 104

Sprengel's shoulder 134

Stewart, Purves 33, 132, 133

Suggestions for studying diseases of the nervous system … (privately printed pamphlet by JHJ) 10

Sunderland, H 83

super-venosity 122

surgical training 4–5

syphilis 38, 63, 67, 69, 89

the brain, effects on 54, 55, 69, 74, 89

congenital 77

epilepsy and 37

inherited 56, 58

intercranial 59, 67, 73, 95

paralysis and 37, 40, 112

symptoms 27, 77, 80, 112

syringomyelus 122

T

taste, sense of 74

Taylor, James 93, 121, 122, 125

JHJ and 8, 30, 33

Selected writings of John Hughlings Jackson (ed.) 31–2

testes 48

tetanus 90, 91

Thompson, Tatham 118

thrombosis of syphilitic arteries 69

tobacco smoking 49

Todd, Robert Bentley 5, 9, 12, 86

JHJ and 9, 12, 17

working methods 9

Todd's paralysis 29

tongue, paralysis of 66, 90, 112

see also speech …; taste

tonic inhibition concept 20

treadler's cramp 121

tubercular meningitis 78

Tuke, Hack 128

Tyndall, John 30

U

the unconscious 22–3, 24

definition 23

evolutionary theory of 21–4

V

vertigo 27, 104

auditory (Ménière's disease) 65, 72, 80, 93, 96, 136

causes 69

vision 42, 43, 47, 48, 67

coloured 37, 41, 72

see also eye …; ophthalmology

vocal chord palsy see speech loss

W

Walshe, Francis 31

Wernicke, [Carl] 126

West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports32

Woodman, W Bathurst 74

word-blindness 125, 126

Worshipful Society of Apothecaries 4, 5, 6

writing 25

inability to write 49, 125

Y

York County Hospital 4

York Dispensary 5

York Medical School 4, 13, 16

York Medical Society 5

Minute Book 12

Z

Zoological Society 16


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