Insanity, its classification, diagnosis, and treatment : a manual for students and practitioners of medicine / E. C. Spitzka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spitzka, E. C. (Edward Charles), 1852-1914, author.

Series:

Bermingham's medical library.

Bermingham's medical library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Insanity

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Bermingham & Company, 1883.

Summary:

The present work was originally intended to cover no other ground than the Definition, Classification, and Diagnosis of Insanity. The requests and suggestions of his pupils and professional friends have induced the writer to enlarge the original essay to the dimensions of a general treatise. In so doing, special stress has been laid on those points which will probably prove comparatively new to many American readers, and which it might be naturally expected would find a place in the first systematic treatise on insanity published on this side of the Atlantic since the days of the immortal Rush. It is scarcely necessary for the writer to state that he has not aimed at presenting more than a surface view of the domain of insanity, in a volume of the modest dimensions of this manual. He has felt that there exists a need for a treatise which, without being so exhaustive as to tire and bewilder the beginner and the general medical reader, shall direct attention to such of the salient points of psychiatry as the general practitioner may be reasonably expected to familiarize himself with--particularly if he desires to fill the position, so often forced on him, of acting as the first counselor of a family in cases of insanity. The writer will consider the object of this treatise fully accomplished if the task of acquiring the rudiments of a difficult and intricate branch of medicine is thereby rendered easier.

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