Commentaries on the Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and Treatment, Moral and Medical, of Insanity (Classic Reprint)

Commentaries on the Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and Treatment, Moral and Medical, of Insanity (Classic Reprint)
Author: George Man Burrows
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780282137298

Excerpt from Commentaries on the Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and Treatment, Moral and Medical, of Insanity The first notice of insanity as a disease traces it to the era of fable yet the cure of the daughters of Proteus by Melampus, through the means of hellebore, bears too many marks of consistency to be a mere fiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Commentaries On the Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and Treatment, Moral and Medical, of Insanity

Commentaries On the Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and Treatment, Moral and Medical, of Insanity
Author: George Man Burrows
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781020241789

First published in 1828, this pioneering work on mental health offers insights into the causes, symptoms, and treatment of various forms of insanity. Despite the passage of time, many of its observations remain valid today, making it an important resource for mental health professionals and students of psychiatry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Commentaries on the Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and Treatment, Moral and Medical, of Insanity - Primary Source Edition

Commentaries on the Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and Treatment, Moral and Medical, of Insanity - Primary Source Edition
Author: George Man Burrows
Publisher: Nabu Press
Total Pages: 712
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781293428016

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s

Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s
Author: Mary de Young
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476617880

The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. This work makes a case for why it should be. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment, and how they have linked extant medical knowledge, practitioner skill and the expectations of patients who experienced their own disorders in different ways. Asylum therapeutics during three centuries are detailed in encyclopedic entries, including "awakening" patients with firecrackers, easing brain congestion by bleeding, extracting teeth and excising parts of the colon, dousing with water, raising or lowering body temperature, shocking with electricity or toxins, and penetrating the brain with ice picks.

The Less Noble Sex

The Less Noble Sex
Author: M. Jeanne Peterson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1989-05-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253208309

Physically frail, badly educated girls, brought up to lead useless lives as idle gentlewomen, married to dominant husbands, and relegated to "separate spheres" of life—these phrases have often been used to describe Victorian upper-middle-class women. M. Jeanne Peterson rejects such formulations and the received wisdom they embody in favor of a careful examination of Victorian ladies and their lives. Focusing on a network of urban professional families over three generations, this book examines the scope and quality of gentlewomen's education, their physical lives, their relationship to money, their experience of family illness and death, and their relationships to men (brothers and friends as well as fathers and husbands). Peterson also examines the prominent place of work in the lives of these "leisured" Victorian ladies, both single and married. Far from idle, the mothers, wives, and daughters of Victorian clergymen, doctors, lawyers, university dons, and others were accomplished and productive members of society who made substantial public and private contributions to virtually every sphere of Victorian life.

Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry

Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 7671
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429795955

Psychiatry is a medical field concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental health conditions. Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry (24 Volume set) brings together titles, originally published between 1958 and 1997. The set demonstrates the varied nature of mental health and how we as a society deal with it. Covering a number of areas including child and adolescent psychiatry, alternatives to psychiatry, the history of mental health and psychiatric epidemiology.