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FRIEDREICH, J[OHANNES] B[APTISTA] (1796-1862), Compendium der gerichtlichen Anthropologie.
Fur Aerzte und Juristen. Regensburg: Verlag von G. Joseph Manz, 1848. 1st Edition. 464pp. Contemporary (publisher's ?) brown-gray cloth with black spine lettering and marbled edges. Some fraying and rubbing to the cloth, but VG. Scarce. A surprisingly uncommon book, considering Friedreich's importance. Though it covers all the customary topics for a forensic medical text of the time, the book is, as the title suggests, very much tilted towards psychological and psychiatric issues, with chapters on the memtal states of persons; psychological judgment; physical & mental disease, damage to the body & poisoning; suicide and the connection between suicide & murder. Not in Wellcome III; OCLC locates 8 copies, only 3 in the USA: NLM, Brown Univ, and (of all places!) Long Beach Public Library. Weight: 1 pound 1.0 ounces = 485 grams. Size: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.0 inches = 21.5 x 14 x 2.5cm. Friedreich was a pioneer German biological psychiatrist who believed that all mental disorders were caused by somatic conditions and were the end product of a chain of events. He stressed the importance of family history of the patient and devised one of the earliest systematic methods of exploring and examining psychiatric patients. He also made contributions to forensic medicine and forensic psychiatry. For a good brief discussion of him see Otto Marx's "German Romantic Psychiatry: Part I. Earlier," pp. 327-328 IN Wallace & Gach History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology. Binding: HB.
Offered for US$ 385.00 by: John Gach Books - Book number: 049847
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