[iii]-viii, [9]-367 + 4 ad pp. Period calf ruled on spine in gilt, morocco lettering piece. First Edition, later issue. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence and "Father of American psychiatry" published this work on "intellectual derangement" one year before his death. Suggestive chapters include "Of the different forms of mania", "The influence of the moon on mania,"; "Of amenomania, or partial intellectual derangement accompanied with pleasure, or not accompanied with distress"; "Of dreaming, incubus, or night mare, and somnambulism"; "Of derangement in the principle of faith, or the believing faculty"; "Of the morbid state of the sexual appetite" and more. Ownership marks of several previous owners on title page, including that of J. Berrien Lindsley, one-time Professor of Medicine at the University of Nashville and co-founder of its Medical Department (a precursor to the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine). The book is a later issue with signature H reset, such that section VIII begins on p. 62. Earlier issue has section VIII on p. 63 (Austin 1669).
[iii]-viii, [9]-367 + 4 ad pp. Period calf ruled on spine in gilt, morocco lettering piece. First Edition, later issue. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence and "Father of American psychiatry" published this work on "intellectual derangement" one year before his death. Suggestive chapters include "Of the different forms of mania", "The influence of the moon on mania,"; "Of amenomania, or partial intellectual derangement accompanied with pleasure, or not accompanied with distress"; "Of dreaming, incubus, or night mare, and somnambulism"; "Of derangement in the principle of faith, or the believing faculty"; "Of the morbid state of the sexual appetite" and more. Ownership marks of several previous owners on title page, including that of J. Berrien Lindsley, one-time Professor of Medicine at the University of Nashville and co-founder of its Medical Department (a precursor to the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine). The book is a later issue with signature H reset, such that section VIII begins on p. 62. Earlier issue has section VIII on p. 63 (Austin 1669).
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