Author: GRIESINGER, W.
Title: Die Pathologie und Therapie der psychischen Krankheiten für Aerzte und Studirende. Dritte Auflage. Mit dem in Stahl gestochenen Portrait des Verfassers.
Description: Braunschweig, Verlag von Friedrich Wreden, 1871. Small 4to. W. frontispiece portrait (a yellow paper ticket below the steelengr. portrait with autograph signature in ink of Griesinger.). In original green pebbled cloth brds., the original hal;f calf spine renewed / replaced by a modern black half mor. spine, solid but in an amateur like fashion. (VI, 538 pp.). (Ex library, w. blindst. on title; Bookplate 'Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic Johns Hopkins Hospital', with 'released' stamp.). Third edition. Comp. G&M 4930 (ed. 1845): 'Griesinger put an end to the moralistic theory of insanity as advanced by Heinroth. He was the first in Germany to abandon violence in the treatment of the insane; his book remained an authority on the subject for 30 years.': Ellenberger, The Discovery of the unconscious, pp. 241 -242: 'At this turning point [ from 'Anstaltpsychiatrie' to 'University psychiatry'] stands the name of one great pioneer, Wilhelm Griesinger (1817 - 1869). ... he became in 1860 the first director of the newly founded university mental hospital of Zurich, the Burghölzli. In 1867 [=1861!!]he published a considerably enlarged second edition of his textbook on psychiatry, which became the standard textbook of that science for an entire generation...':

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