Author: ESQUIROL (E[tienne])
Title: Des Maladies Mentales Considérés sous les Parrorts Médical, Hygiénique et Médico-Légal.
Description: Paris: B. Baillière, 1838. 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.

Keywords: MEDICINE PSYCHIATRY MENTAL DISORDER MENTAL HEALTH MADNESS LUNACY INSANITY INSANE LUNATICS