Andrew Hodgson
@andrewhodgson.bsky.social
Writing in various capacities, based at Université Paris Cité
www.andrewhodgson.fr
www.andrewhodgson.fr
And, you’re very welcome
December 30, 2024 at 6:13 PM
And, you’re very welcome
Nordau attended the same lectures by Charcot on « dégénérescence » that Freud did, and that inspired Salomonsen in Denmark
December 30, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Nordau attended the same lectures by Charcot on « dégénérescence » that Freud did, and that inspired Salomonsen in Denmark
… and ophthalmologists were specialists in all sorts of things that would not be seen as their concern today)
December 30, 2024 at 5:31 PM
… and ophthalmologists were specialists in all sorts of things that would not be seen as their concern today)
(Or rather, the answer is something along the lines of - before the proper understanding of bacteria, it was known lots of things can be transmitted via the eye, like f. eks. diseases, but it wasn’t understood how. And so ophthalmology was a very very wide-ranging discipline…
December 30, 2024 at 5:29 PM
(Or rather, the answer is something along the lines of - before the proper understanding of bacteria, it was known lots of things can be transmitted via the eye, like f. eks. diseases, but it wasn’t understood how. And so ophthalmology was a very very wide-ranging discipline…
Well, you are in luck! As I translated and published the texts discussing contagious ophthalmic psychosis from this research as a book last year! It is here :
new-documents.org/books/new-fo...
new-documents.org/books/new-fo...
New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness
Over the years 1919–20, the celebrated medical scientist and doctor Carl Julius Salomonsen began giving public lectures and publishing pamphlets regarding a new “epidemic” that had begun to affect the...
new-documents.org
December 30, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Well, you are in luck! As I translated and published the texts discussing contagious ophthalmic psychosis from this research as a book last year! It is here :
new-documents.org/books/new-fo...
new-documents.org/books/new-fo...
I believe you are quite right!
December 2, 2024 at 11:17 PM
I believe you are quite right!