8vo. pp. xiv, [1 leaf], 226, [10]ads. with half-title. original cloth (spine faded & trifle frayed). First Edition. Tuke, a distinguished physician, "was a prolific and suggestive writer, and was encyclopaedic in his knowledge of lunacy." (DNB) He was co-author, with Sir John Charles Bucknill, of A Manual of Psychological Medicine (1858), which was "for many years the standard English work on psychological medicine." (Garrison & Morton 4934) The present study includes discussion of mental illness among the working and upper classes, facts and figures relating to the increase of insanity, the importance of cheerfulness, rest, and diet in maintaining mental health, &c.

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Insanity In Ancient And Modern Life, With Chapters On Its Prevention.

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London: Macmillan And Co. 1878.

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1878

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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