Title Clinical lectures on mental diseases / by T.S. Clouston, M.D., Edin., F.R.C.P.E., (Physicial Superintendent of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the Insane ; lecturer on mental diseases in the Edinburgh University ; formerly co-editor "Journal of mental science ; " foreign associate of the Société Medico-Psychologique ; honorary member of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, and of the New England Psychological Society). To which is added, an Abstract of the statutes of the United States, and of the several states and territories, relating to the custody of the insane, by Charles F. Folsom, M.D., (fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; assistant professor of mental diseases, Harvard Medical School ; physician to out-patients with diseases of the nervous system, Boston City Hospital)

Published Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., 1884 ©1884

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 33-550 pages) : color plates, diagram, facsimile Summary "I have been much impressed in teaching students by the fact that you can manifestly interest every member of a large class when you are teaching mental diseases clinically, while you fail to reach some of them by systematic descriptions. Direct appeals to the facts of nature, however fragmentary, make more impression on them than any amount of elaborate description. These considerations led me to publish the following lectures as a text-book for my students in the University of Edinburgh; and I venture to indulge the hope that it will also supply a want which I know many busy practitioners of medicine feel. The two hundred and sixty cases of mental disease which I describe and embody in those lectures may, I hope, assist some of my brethren in the profession in their treatment of a very obscure and troublesome class of diseases. In the selection of those cases, I had in view rather their applicability as good, ordinary types and guides than their rarity or their striking characters. The tendency in publishing mental cases has been to fix on wonderful rather than useful examples. To render the work complete as regards the wants of the American practitioner, Dr. Charles F. Folsom, with the assistance of Hollis R. Bailey, Esq., has added an appendix on the laws of the United States, and of the several States, relating to the custody of the insane"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (Google, HathiTrust, HeinOnline, viewed October 2, 2017) Subject Psychiatry -- Early works to 1900. Mental health laws. Mental illness. Mental Disorders mental disorders. Mental illness Mental health laws Psychiatry Genre/Form Early works Form Electronic book Author Folsom, Charles Follen, 1842-1907. Abstract of the statutes of the United States, and of the several states and territories, relating to the custody of the insane LC no. 07034403

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