Mitchell, Morehouse, and Keen were army surgeons during the American Civil War; their book was the first exhaustive study of the traumatic neuroses. Includes the first description of ascending neuritis, and also of the treatment of neuritis by cold and splint rests. Reprinted, San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1989. 

Reprinted in 1874 by Lippincott as a separate pamphlet, and in Keen’s Addresses and other papers, Philadelphia, 1905.

Keen was a pioneer in linear craniotomy and one of the first successfully to operate for meningioma. He was Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College.

Spastic torticollis treated by division of spinal accessory nerve and posterior roots of first, second, and third spinal nerves.

First clinical application in America, published in March, 1896.

Cushing’s first treatise on neurosurgery. “As a result of this detailed monograph, neurological surgery became almost at once recognized as a clear-cut field of surgical endeavor” (J.F. Fulton, Harvey Cushing [1947] 268).

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.