RAY, Isaac (1807-1881). A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity . Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1838. 8 o (227 x 145 mm). Original honeycomb-grain plum cloth (a shade faded, small chip in half-title leaf); red cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION of "the first authoritative and comprehensive treatise in English on the relation between law and psychiatry, and the first American treatise on a psychological subject since the publication of Benjamin Rush's Medical Inquiries [1812]. Ray's work exerted a considerable influence on Anglo-American jurisprudence, particularly in the famous M'Naughton trial of 1843, which prompted the establishment of the M'Naughton Rules redefining the common law of insanity. Ray became the most influential American writer on forensic psychiatry of the nineteenth century" (Norman). A very good copy. Deutsch, pp. 203-204; Garrison-Morton 1739; Nemec 395; Norman 1783.
RAY, Isaac (1807-1881). A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity . Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1838. 8 o (227 x 145 mm). Original honeycomb-grain plum cloth (a shade faded, small chip in half-title leaf); red cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION of "the first authoritative and comprehensive treatise in English on the relation between law and psychiatry, and the first American treatise on a psychological subject since the publication of Benjamin Rush's Medical Inquiries [1812]. Ray's work exerted a considerable influence on Anglo-American jurisprudence, particularly in the famous M'Naughton trial of 1843, which prompted the establishment of the M'Naughton Rules redefining the common law of insanity. Ray became the most influential American writer on forensic psychiatry of the nineteenth century" (Norman). A very good copy. Deutsch, pp. 203-204; Garrison-Morton 1739; Nemec 395; Norman 1783.
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