RUSH, Benjamin (1745-1813). Medical Inquiries and Observations, Upon the Diseases of the Mind . Philadelphia: Kimber & Richardson, 1812. 8 o. (Title margin renewed at top, some pale browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance : Weir Mitchell (bookplate); Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, second issue. 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.
RUSH, Benjamin (1745-1813). Medical Inquiries and Observations, Upon the Diseases of the Mind . Philadelphia: Kimber & Richardson, 1812. 8 o. (Title margin renewed at top, some pale browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance : Weir Mitchell (bookplate); Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, second issue. 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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