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PHILIPPE, PINEL. - A Treatise on Insanity, in which are contained The principles of a New and More Practical Nosology of maniacal Disorders than has yet been Offered to the Public, Exemplified by Numerous and Accurate Historical Relations of cases from the Author's Public and Private Practice; with plates illustrative of the Craniology of Maniacs and Ideots. Translated from the French, by D. Davis, M. D. Physician to the Sheffield General Infirmary.

Title: A Treatise on Insanity, in which are contained The principles of a New and More Practical Nosology of maniacal Disorders than has yet been Offered to the Public, Exemplified by Numerous and Accurate Historical Relations of cases from the Author's Public and Private Practice; with plates illustrative of the Craniology of Maniacs and Ideots. Translated from the French, by D. Davis, M. D. Physician to the Sheffield General Infirmary.
Description: Facsimile Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [ii], lvi, 288, (i); marbled endpapers, illustrated with 2 full page b/w. plates, 1 folding table, all edges gilt, original full leather binding, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt decoration to spine and front board, original silk ribbon bookmark, fine copy. Together with 26 page Notes From the Editors booklet. Gryphon Editions; The Classics of Medicine Library; 1983. Facsimile of the 1806 first English edition.

Keywords: medical history insanity

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- Book number: 103469