Observations on mental derangement. A facsim. reproduction of the first American ed. (1834), with an introd. by Anthony A. Walsh.

Author
Combe, Andrew, 1797-1847 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Delmar, N.Y., Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1972.
Description
xv, [1], 336 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    History of psychology series [More in this series]
    Notes
    Rcpxr copy: Laid in: Presentation note from Anthony A. Walsh to Denis Gahagan.
    Bibliographic references
    Bibliography: p. [335]-336.
    Contents
    • 1. General remarks on the functions of the brain and nervous system
    • 2. Influence of organic size on energy of function, particularly as applied to the organs of the external senses
    • 3. Mental derangement is always sympotomatic of cerebral disease
    • 4. Predisposing causes of mental derangement
    • 5. Exciting or occasional causes of mental derangement
    • 6. Symptoms of mental derangement
    • 7. Duration, periodicity, and symptomatic forms of mental derangement
    • 8. Apperances on dissection after mental derangement
    • 9. What are the proximate causes of mental derangement?
    • Prevention and treatment of mental derangement.
    Source acquisition
    Purchase; Denis Gahagan Collection from Chapel Books (Westleton, Suffolk, UK); 2011.
    ISBN
    • 0820110892
    • 9780820110899
    LCCN
    72161928
    OCLC
    297928
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