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Second edition, considerably enlarged, 8vo (215 x 130 mm), vii, [1], 345, [1]pp., text woodcut of Haslam's 'Key', foxing to prelims and final few pages, title page browned, blank inner upper corner of title torn away, front hinge weak, cont. half calf, rubbed. "Haslam considered the enlarged second edition... to be his magnum opus; it remained a standard work for several years. This edition includes an illustration of Haslam's infamous "key," an instrument used to force patients' mouths open to receive food, medicine, etc.; the key was intended as an improvement to earlier methods of artificial feeding, as it preserved the patients' teeth."?Hook & Norman. Hook & Norman, Haskell F. Norman Library I, 1015; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 632-636; Wellcome III, p. 221; Garrison-Morton, 4794 (first edition).
1869réf. 19935Paris, Germer et Baillière, 1869 ; in 12, demi chagrin vert foncé, dos à nerf, titre doré ; XXIV, 206, [2] pp. EAS à un confrère.
First edition, 8vo (200 x 130 mm) [20], 316pp., ownership inscription on fly-leaf "Harbin - 1743", contemporary calf, spine with raised bands and ruled in gilt, slight nick to headband otherwise a very nice copy. In this work Cheyne aroused much interest in the investigation of the bodily fibres and in exploration of the metaphysical relationship of mind and body. "Like many other authors on nervous diseases of the depressive kind, Cheyne wrote from personal experience and so, perhaps claimed that those 'of the liveliest and quickest natural Parts..... whose Genius is most keen and penetrating' were most prone to such disorders: Fools, weak or stupid Persons, heavy and dull Souls, are seldom troubled with Vapours or Lowness of Spirits.' Perhaps for the same reason he considered that 'of all the Miseries that afflict Human Life, and relate principally to the Body, in this Valley of Tears, I think Nervous Disorders, in their extreme and last Degrees, are the most deplorable, and beyond comparison the worst.' He recommended treatment especially by evacuation and slender diet, by which he himself had been cured."?Hunter and McAlpine. Wellcome II, p.339; Hunter and MacAlpine, pp.351-54.
First edition, 8vo (220 x 130 mm), ix, [1], 320pp., some intermittent light foxing, 1 folding table, fait stamp to title page, later maroon cloth, rubbed, spine lettered in gilt. An investigation of the curability of insanity based on the statistics of a countrywide survey of mental institutions. "Burrows claimed to have cured eighty-one percent of all the mental patients in his private asylum, with the rate rising to ninety-one percent for cases of less than a year's duration?questionable figures that were nevertheless accepted uncritically by his book's many readers. The cult of curability was an extreme reaction to the earlier belief that insanity was beyond help; during the period of its greatest influence, it inspired a marked increase in the construction of state mental hospitals."?Hook & Norman. Provenance: Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Hook & Norman, Haskell F. Norman Library I, 379; Hunter & Macalpine, p. 778; Wellcome II, p. 277.
First edition, 2 vols., 8vo (210 x 130 mm), xviii, 678; [4], 864pp., with half-titles, BUT WITHOUT THE ATLAS VOLUME OF 27 PLATES, several neat library stamps, later library buckram, joints cracked, upper cover of vol. I detached. The first modern textbook of psychiatry. Provenance: Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Hook & Norman, Haskell F. Norman Library I, 728; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 731-38; Garrison-Morton, 4798.
First English edition, 8vo (210 x 130 mm), lv, [1], 288pp., with the half-title, faint unobtrusive stamp to title page, 2 engraved plates, one folding table, some light browning and spotting, some minor water-staining more so to the last ten leaves, later maroon cloth, lower hinge torn. The French physician Philippe Pinel (1745-1826), who founded the French School of Psychiarry at Hospice de la Salp?triere, has been described as 'the father of modern psychiatry'. "Pinel was among the first to treat insane humanely; he dispensed with chains and placed his patients under the care of specially selected physicians. Garrison considered the above book one of the foremost medical classics, giving as it did a great impetus to humanitarian treatment of the insane."?Garrison-Morton. The first edition of his Traite medico-philosophique sur l'alienation mentale; ou la manie appeared in 1801. Provenance: Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Hook & Norman, Haskell F. Norman Library II, 1704; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 602-610; Garrison-Morton, 4922; Wellcome IV, p. 388.
Second edition, 8vo (215 x 130 mm), vii, [1], 345, [1] + 6pp., of publishers' adverts, text woodcut of Haslam's 'Key', small hole to upper blank margin of title page, faint unobtrusive ink library stamp, later plum cloth. "Haslam considered the enlarged second edition... to be his magnum opus; it remained a standard work for several years. This edition includes an illustration of Haslam's infamous "key," an instrument used to force patients' mouths open to receive food, medicine, etc.; the key was intended as an improvement to earlier methods of artificial feeding, as it preserved the patients' teeth."?Hook & Norman. Provenance: Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Hook & Norman, Haskell F. Norman Library I, 1015; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 632-636; Wellcome III, p. 221; Garrison-Morton, 4794 (first edition).
1880réf. CAT0161Vermont 1880. Albumen photograph. 15 ½ x 10 inches on a 19 x 14 inch cardstock mount. Very Good. A rare 19th century view of an insane asylum. The Vermont Asylum for the Insane which later became the Brattleboro Retreat was founded based on Quaker principles of moral treatment. The founder Anna Hunt Marsh was the first woman credited with starting a hospital for the mentally ill. The approach was based on English institutions such as The York Retreat. "Moral treatment" first developed by William Tuke in the 18th century treated mental disorders as diseases and not character flaws or the results of sinning or mental depravity. This image is unrecorded and would date to sometime before 1890 when the institution was renamed. Some uneven fading otherwise well preserved. Mount toned at edges. Very good overall. unknown books
1880réf. CAT0161Vermont 1880. Albumen photograph. 15 ½ x 10 inches on a 19 x 14 inch cardstock mount. Very Good. A rare 19th century view of an insane asylum. The Vermont Asylum for the Insane which later became the Brattleboro Retreat was founded based on Quaker principles of moral treatment. The founder Anna Hunt Marsh was the first woman credited with starting a hospital for the mentally ill. The approach was based on English institutions such as The York Retreat. “Moral treatment” first developed by William Tuke in the 18th century treated mental disorders as diseases and not character flaws or the results of sinning or mental depravity. This image is unrecorded and would date to sometime before 1890 when the institution was renamed. Some uneven fading otherwise well preserved. Mount toned at edges. Very good overall. unknown
First edition, 4to (276 x 220 mm), large paper copy, xx, [21]-227, [1, errata]pp., engraved frontispiece of the North front vie of the Retreat, quite heavily offset onto title as usual, small oval oil stain to lower blank margin of title and prelims, loss to top corner of P1 removing one letter from margin header, 2 engraved ground plans, nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards, leather spine label, slightly rubbed. In 1791 a Quaker woman, Hannah Miles, died in suspicious circumstances in the York Asylum (later Bootham Park Hospital). William Tuke was appalled, and when his daughter Ann asked why there could not be an establishment for such persons within the Quaker Society he was immediately taken with the idea. His wife hated the whole idea and the Society of Friends and initially disapproved of the whole scheme, but despite all obstacles the basic principle of The Retreat was formerly laid down. It was to be 1796 before The Retreat first opened its doors to patients and the first three arrived in May of that year. At the time of The Retreat's foundation many patients in other institutions were chained or manacled to starve them to reduce their strength. Many madhouses were filled with stench and patients were cruelly beaten to fit in with the common philosophy that the rule of fear was the only way to control patients. Tuke's philosophy was vastly different and, in 1813 his grandson Samuel published this book. It was to have a profound effect on the conceptions of how to deal with the mentally ill, and was instrumental in bringing about reforms at York Asylum. With intense interest aroused the House of Commons set up a Select Committee to report on 'Madhouses' in 1815 as a direct result. Tuke gave evidence to a second report and his 'mild method' of looking after the mentally ill eventually won support and gave rise to new legislation. The Retreat was to evolve new and far reaching methods of humane treatment of the mentally ill and leave a lasting impression on the theory and practice of other establishments both nationally and internationally. Garrison-Morton, 4925.1; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 684-90; Norman, 2109.
