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CATLOW, JOSEPH PEEL (DIED 1867?), On the Principles of Aesthetic Medicine, or the Natural Use of Sensation and Desire in the Maintenance of Health and the Treatment of Disease, as Demonstrated by Induction from the Common Facts of Life.
London: Churchill, 1867. 1st Edition, 2nd issue. 325+[3]pp. Paneled publisher's green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and glazed yellow endpapers. Modest shelfwear to the corners, else very good. Scarce. Title-page a cancel, presumably for the "Hamilton, Adams" imprint also recorded by WorldCat with the same date and pagination. Apparently Catlow's only book. With a printed dedicatory leaf dated 1853, on the verso of which is a printed notice (dated January 1867) stating that the author's sudden death occasioned the omission of side notes in part of the manuscript. 1 pound 5.8 ounces = 620 grams. 8.9 x 6.0 x 1.0 inches = 22.3 x 15 x 2.5cm. Hopelessly obscure (I cannot find a single reference to it), Catlow's is nonetheless an extraordinary book, being at once a treatise on what is now called holistic medicine, a treatise on aesthetics, and a treatise on developmental psychology. Catlow's notions of susceptibility and sensibility directly prefigure Piaget's concepts of accomodation and assimilation -- indeed, his entire discussion of the hierarchical development of mental life reads like Piaget. His lengthy discussion of infant psychology is astute and generations ahead of what anybody else was writing in the 1860s. His treatment of desire and volition is equally profound. He knows that dreams are wish-fulfillment (p. 298), that they guard sleep, and that dream images must derive from prior sensation or thought. Binding: HB.
Offered for US$ 275.00 by: John Gach Books - Book number: 004340
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