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RUSH, Benjamin (1745-1813). Medical Inquiries and Observations, Upon the Diseases of the Mind. Philadelphia: Kimber & Richardson, 1812.
8o (207 x 125mm.). (Foxing, front free endleaf lacking, several leaves with marginal tears, back free endleaf loose). Contemporary mottled sheep, gilt-lettered spine label, edges stained yellow (minor shelfwear to board edges). Provenance: Thomas Bucklin, nineteenth-century booklabel; Charles L. Willmarth, bookplate.
FIRST EDITION, second issue (with additions to text in quire H). THE FIRST PSYCHIATRIC WORK BY AN AMERICAN, synthesizing Rush's clinical observations and practice in mental derangement, which began in 1787, when he was placed in charge of the insane patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. "Recognizing the need to see man as a whole, with body and mind 'intimately united,' Rush was deliberately unorthodox in devoting a large part of his physiological lectures to a discussion of the operations and functions of the mind" (DSB). Rush's enlightened and practical treatise represents "the first attempt made in the United States to place the study of mental illness on a scientific foundation." Austin 1670; Deutsch, The Mentally Ill in America (New York 1957), Chapter 5; Garrison & Morton 4924; Hunter & Macalpine. pp.662-670; Norman 1867.
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FIRST EDITION, second issue (with additions to text in quire H). THE FIRST PSYCHIATRIC WORK BY AN AMERICAN, synthesizing Rush's clinical observations and practice in mental derangement, which began in 1787, when he was placed in charge of the insane patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. "Recognizing the need to see man as a whole, with body and mind 'intimately united,' Rush was deliberately unorthodox in devoting a large part of his physiological lectures to a discussion of the operations and functions of the mind" (DSB). Rush's enlightened and practical treatise represents "the first attempt made in the United States to place the study of mental illness on a scientific foundation." Austin 1670; Deutsch, The Mentally Ill in America (New York 1957), Chapter 5; Garrison & Morton 4924; Hunter & Macalpine. pp.662-670; Norman 1867.