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

Published by London: Macmillan And Co. 1878., 1878

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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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Title
Insanity In Ancient And Modern Life, With Chapters On Its Prevention.
Author
TUKE, Daniel Hack [1827-1895].
Publisher
London: Macmillan And Co. 1878.
Publication year
1878
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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