On Obscure Diseases of the Brain, and Disorders of the Mind: Their Incipient Symptoms, Pathology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prophylaxis
- Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1860
Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1860. First American edition. First American edition. 576, 32 pp. Bound in publisher's ornately-blindstamped brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+, dulled lettering, cloth a little worn and slightly frayed along edges, a few small scratches to spine, name written on front free endpaper, slight wave to textblock. Nice shape overall.
A Victorian psychology text with many accounts of various mental illnesses such as hallucinations, hydrophobia (fear of water), epilepsy, muteness, and brain damage written by the British psychiatrist best-known for his involvement with the Jack the Ripper case. Winslow claimed to have identified the serial killer as lodger G. Wentworth Smith, a theory he propounded for many years so vigorously that at one point Winslow himself was considered a suspect in the crime by police.
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Title
On Obscure Diseases of the Brain, and Disorders of the Mind: Their Incipient Symptoms, Pathology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prophylaxis
Author
Winslow, Forbes
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Blanchard & Lea: Philadelphia
Date
1860
Edition
First American edition