Practical Observations on Insanity: In which some suggestions are offered towards an improved mode of treating diseases of the mind, and some rules proposed which it is hoped may lead to a more humane and successful Method of Cure. To Which are Subjoined Remarks on Medical Jurisprudence as Connected with Diseased Intellect

Cox, Joseph Mason

Verlag: Thomas Dobson, 1811

Practical Observations on Insanity: In which some suggestions are offered towards an improved mode of treating diseases of the mind, and some rules proposed which it is hoped may lead to a more humane and successful Method of Cure. To Which are Subjoined Remarks on Medical Jurisprudence as Connected with Diseased Intellect, By Joseph Mason Cox, M.D. From the second corrected and enlarged London Edition, Published by Thomas Dobson, At the Stone House, Philadelphia, 1811, 238 pp plus publisher s list, full original leather, 8 x 4.5 , 8vo. In fair condition. Front board is fragile and nearly detached. Hanging on by one cord thread. Tree calf leather peeling at edges with red rod and numerous abrasions to the surface. Corners rubbed with loss. Leather flaking. Spine abraded and worn. Ex-library plate of New York physician J.P. Batchelder on pastedown. His signature along with no. 136 on the fly. He has signed the title page as well. Internally good with light toning and age staining. Some foxing throughout. A few margins are nicked with slight loss. Binding remains intact. Please see photos. Scarce American edition by Joseph Mason Cox (1763-1818) was an early nineteenth century English physician whose entire professional career was devote to care and treatment of mentally ill people. Cox s maternal grandfather owned Fishponds, a lunatic asylum near Bristol where Joesph took over until his death in 1818. Fishponds continued to served as an asylum until 1859. This work was first published in 1804 and had two subsequent editions in 1811 and 1813, published in France, Germany and the U.S. Cox believed in kind and gentle management of the mentally ill and described hydrotherapy in both mania and melancholia. He described detailed descriptions of medications used like digitalis, derived from Foxglove, as an anti-maniacal remedy. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), naturalist and physician and grandfather to Charles Darwin, advocated for Cox s medical practices. Important provenance of J.P. Batchelder, a New York surgeon and lecturer who wrote one of the first, if not the first, pamphlets on the Cholera epidemic in New York City, Cholera: Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment, Considered and Explained, 1849 . The 1832 arrival of cholera in the United State inspired a host of publications by physicians about the disease. By 1849, many New York physicians had accepted that cholera was portable, if not contagious. This pamphlet, by the eminent New York lecturer and surgeon J. P. Batchelder, documents a moment when the medical community was studying the spread of epidemic diseases in earnest, but the science was not yet understood. In a section on causes, Batchelder enumerates a long list of populations susceptible to the disease, including those suffering from hunger and those exposed to the night air. -The New York Academy of Medicine Archives. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers RAREA1811BOPX

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Titel: Practical Observations on Insanity: In which...
Verlag: Thomas Dobson
Erscheinungsdatum: 1811
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Fair
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