Intracranial Tumors Among the Insane. A Study of Twenty-Nine Intracranial Tumors Found in Sixteen Hundred and Forty-Two Autopsies In Cases of Mental Disease.

BLACKBURN, I.W.

Published by Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903., 1903

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From the library of Dr. C.B. Farrar. Tall 8vo., orig. green cloth, 95pp.text and 30 plates and 65 microscopal drawings. Fine. Dr. Clarence B. Farrar [1874-1970] "trained under several of the foremost medical scholars of his era beginning with Osler and then at Heidelberg under Kraepelin, Nissl and Alzheimer. Farrar was hand-picked by Prof. Charles Clarke, the University's inaugural head fo Psychiatry, to succeed him in both that chair and as the first Director of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital (TPH) opening in 1925. Farrar served in those capacities until 1947, setting the stage fo the TPH to continue as the Department's clinical, teaching, research and administrative nexus until succeeded in 1966 by the Clarke Institute." Dr. Farrar also served as the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry. (TPH: History and Memories of Toronto Psychiatric Hospital by Edward Shorter). Seller Inventory # 29434

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Title: Intracranial Tumors Among the Insane. A ...

Publisher: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903.

Publication Date: 1903

Binding: Soft cover