Francis Xavier Dercum

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Francis Xavier Dercum circa 1915

Francis Xavier Dercum (August 10, 1856 – April 24, 1931) was an American physician who first described the disease

neurologist and specialised in treating nervous and mental disorders.[2] He treated President Woodrow Wilson in 1919,[3] and Ima Hogg for three years, beginning in 1918.[2]

Life and career

Dercum was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated at the local high school and attended

Philadelphia General Hospital
in 1887. In 1911, he became a consulting neurologist at the hospital.

Dercum pursued research endeavors. He studied the

therapeutics
.

In 1892,

criminally insane
at Fairview.

Dercum was active in many professional and learned societies. He was a founding member of the

Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
.

During

U.S. Navy
.

When President Wilson collapsed in

Edith Bolling Wilson, to stand in as his virtual substitute.[3]

Dercum died in 1931 while presiding over a meeting of the

Bala Cynwyd
, Pennsylvania.

Works

  • A Textbook on Nervous Diseases, Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co., 1895. https://archive.org/details/textbookonnervou00derc
  • “Report of Three Cases of Beri-Beri,” Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 20(2) (Feb. 1895): 103-109.
  • “Two cases of Adiposa Dolorosa,” Transactions. College of Physicians of Philadelphia (1902).
  • Rest, Mental Therapeutics, Suggestion, 1903
  • A Clinical Manual of Mental Diseases. Philadelphia; London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1913. https://archive.org/details/39002010914035.med.yale.edu
  • “The Treatment of Mental Affections as they are Met with in General Practice,” New York Medical Journal (March 13, 1915).
  • Hysteria and accident compensation: Nature of Hysteria and the Lesson of the Post-Litigation Results, 1916.
  • “Metabolism in Insanity,” Journal of the American Medical Association (April 15, 1916): 1183-1188.
  • A Clinical Manual of Mental Diseases, 1917.
  • Rest, Suggestion, and Other Therapeutic Measures in Nervous and Mental Disease. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston’s Son & Co., 1917. https://archive.org/details/cu31924003706615
  • “The Interpretation of the Neuroses: Biologic, Pathologic and Clinical Considerations, together with an Evaluation of the Psychogenic Factors,” Journal of the American Medical Association (April 28, 1917): 1223-1227.
  • An Essay on the Physiology of Mind: An Interpretation based on Biological, Morphological, Physical and Chemical Considerations. Philadelphia; London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1922. https://archive.org/details/cu31924029080709
  • The Biology of the Internal Secretions, Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders Co., 1924.

Footnotes

  1. PMID 16250185
    .
  2. ^ a b Bernhard (1984), p. 60.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0-399-15921-3
    .
  4. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-04-04.

References

  • Bernhard, Virginia (1984). Ima Hogg: The Governor's Daughter.
    ISBN 1-881089-91-6
    .

External links
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