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Prichard (James Cowles)

A Treatise on Insanity and other Disorders affecting the Mind.

Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837.,

75,00 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, Royaume-Uni)

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Auteur
Prichard (James Cowles)
Éditeurs
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837.
Thème
MEDICINE Insanity

Description

First American edition, 337, [1]pp., advertisement leaf at end, name on upper blank margin of title, light toning of the text in places, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, calf label and spine chipped, uncut. ìPrichard was the first English psychiatrist who separated from the omnibus ëinsanityí a ënewí group of mental disorders which he called ëmoral insanityí and so added a new term to psychiatric nosography.î - Hunter and MacAlpine. *****He gave a brief description of it in an article in the ëCyclopedia of Practical Medicineí edited by J. Forbes, London, 1833-5, 11, p.12. This was afterwards enlarged into this famous ëTreatise on Insanity.í, first published in London in 1835. Hunter and MacAlpine, pp.836-42; Garrison and Morton, 4928; Heirs of Hippocrates, 1421.
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