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Title: Lot of three pamphlets on the Insane Author: ** Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Galt, John M. Essays on Asylums for Persons of Unsound Mind. Second Series. 44 pp. Richmond, VA: Ritchies & Dunnavant, 1853. * The Carre and Treatment of the Insane, A Medical Question? ...How the Odell Lunacy Law has destroyed the influence of the Medical Superintendents of the State Hospitals for the Insane... 30 pp. N.P.: After 1890. * MacDonald, Carlos F. The Modern Aspect of Scientific Investigation of Insanity and the Development of the Pathological Institute of the New York State Hospitals for the Insane. 7 pp. Albany: 1897. Together, 3 pamplets. First removed from larger volume, others in original wrappers. Only three copies of the 1853 second series of Galt's Essays are listed by WorlCat, at the National LIbrary of Medicine, Marietta College, and the Library of Congress. Lot Amendments Condition: First with light staining to 1st and last leaves; all very good. Item number: 204586