re: Bonnet Syndrome
Whit:
Two historical articles:
Berrios GE, Brook P.
The Charles Bonnet syndrome and the problem of visual
perceptual disorders in the elderly.
Age Ageing 1982 Feb;11(1):17-23
Goldberg KB, Goldberg RE.
Is seeing believing? Visual hallucinations in age-related
macular degeneration and Charles Bonnet.
J Ophthalmic Nurs Technol 2000 Jan-Feb;19(1):39-42
and a PhD dissertation (Ron Melzack, adviser):
Schultz, Geoffrey Robert.
Complex visual hallucinations associated with deficits in vision: The
Charles Bonnet syndrome.
McGill University, 1996
ISBN: 0-612-12476-2
http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/NN12476
Bonnet's entry in _Dictionary of Scientific Biography_ (1970, v.2, p.
286-287) points to an autobiography, other theses, and correspondence
("His extraordinary imagination suggested projects that his poor
eyesight prevented him from carrying out; he treatd these projects in
numerous works, and above all he discussed them with his many
correspondents...") between Bonnett and Spallanzani, Fontana, Van
Swieten, etc. -- see citations to sorrespondences in NLM's
_Bibliography of the History of Medicine_.
Cheers,
Russell Johnson
UCLA Neuroscience History Archives and History and Special Colelctions
Division, Louise Darling Biomedical Library
rjohnson@library.ucla.edu