A selection of papers and prize essays on subjects connected with insanity, read before the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

viii, 200 p., 1ℓ : 3 plates (1 col.) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : published by the Society, 1850.

Contents:

Haslam, John. On retraint and coercion, 1833.

Haslam, J. An attempt to institute the correct discrimination between crime and insanity, 1843.

Haslam, J. On the increase of insanity, with an endeavour to detect the causes of its multiplication, 1843.

Morison, A. Remarkable case, 1843.

Smyth, Spencer T. A practical essay on "puerperal insanity", 1845.

Discipulus. Essay of puerperal insanity, 1845.

[anon.] An essay upon the morbid appearances of insanity and its complications ... 1846.

Morison, T.C. On lucid intervals [n.d.]

Robertson, C.L. An Essay on the improvements made by the moderns in the medical treatment of mental diseases [n.d.]

Robertson, C.L. An essay on the moral management of insanity. [n.d.]

Notes:

Rules and members of the Society: p. [v]-viii.

Bookseller's ticket inside front cover: G. & J. Robinson, Liverpool.

Bibliographical footnotes.

OCLC:

3423647