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Combe (Andrew)

Observations on Mental Derangement: Being an Application of the Principles of Phrenology to the Elucidation of the Causes, Symptoms, Nature, and Treatment of Insanity.

Edinburgh: John Anderson, 1831.,

243.76 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, United Kingdom)

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Author
Combe (Andrew)
Publishers
Edinburgh: John Anderson, 1831.
Keyword
MEDICINE PSYCHIATRY MENTAL DISORDER MENTAL HEALTH MADNESS LUNACY, INSANITY INSANE LUNATICS

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First edition, 8vo (200 x 115 mm), xxxvi, 392 + 12pp., of publishersí adverts at the front and 4pp., at end, with half-title, faint unobtrusive stamp to title, new endpapers, later quarter blue morocco by Chivers of Bath, untrimmed. Combe maintained that mental disorder was in fact a ësymptom of cerebral diseaseí, and therefore to be regarded in the same way as the diseases of any other organ. Provenance: Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 812-18; Wellcome II, p. 376.
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