Treatise on the law of idiocy and lunacy : to which is subjoined an appendix, comprising a selection of American cases : in which some important subjects of this treatise have been investigated and new principles settled

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Highmore, A. (Anthony), Jr., 1758-1829, author.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insanity (Law)--United States.

Insanity (Law).

Insanity (Law)--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 194 pages).

Edition:

First American from the last London edition.

Place of Publication:

1822

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

Includes index and bibliography.

OCLC:

60730139