Excelsior; The Literary Gazette of the Murray Royal Institution Perth; being the Quarterly Magazine of James Murray's Royal Asylum Perth

LAUDER LINDSAY, W.

Verlag: Perth, 1878

Beschreibung

Published: 1878. DESCRIPTION: Presentation copy from Lauder Lindsay. Half black cloth binding with patterned paper covered boards. Contains issues No.19 (1864) through to No.38 published (1878). Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Front board attached by lower binding string only. Half of spine missing with remainder attached at rear edge. DJ Condition: No DJ Size: 26.5cm by 21.5cm. AUTHOR: Dr William Lauder Lindsay (1829 - 1880) was a Scottish physician and botanist. As a physician he largely worked in the field of mental health. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh receiving his doctorate (MD) in 1852 with the thesis The lichens. In 1853 he began working as an assistant physician at the Crichton Royal Asylum in Dumfries. In 1854 he moved to be Physician at the Murray Royal Asylum in Perth and held this role until 1879. In 1858 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society (FLS) and in 1861 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer for the latter was John Hutton Balfour. The Society gave him the Neill Prize of 1859 for his work on lichens. In 1861 and 1862 he took an extended trip to New Zealand later winning a silver medal in the New Zealand Exhibition of 1865 for services to Botany. He died of exhaustion and malnutrition brought on by extreme dyspepsia on 24 November 1880 at his home at 3 Hartington Gardens in Edinburgh. He was aged 50. BOOK RESUME: Excelsior; or, Murrays Royal Asylum Literary Gazette, (published for twenty-one years between 1857-1878) was an Asylum therapeutic periodical that gave patients the ability to express their thoughts and fantasies beyond the walls of the institution, generate a sense of belonging and challenge the negative image of asylums and metal illness. Excelsior was not a unique publication. In fact, since the 1830s several mental asylums had published periodicals written, edited and sometimes printed by patients. The practice originated almost simultaneously in Scotland and America and remained particularly popular there until the end of the century. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10496

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Titel: Excelsior; The Literary Gazette of the ...

Verlag: Perth

Erscheinungsdatum: 1878

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No DJ

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