Sound mind, or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect / by John Haslam.

Date:
1819
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Credit: Sound mind, or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect / by John Haslam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE The indulgence of the public has been already extended to several works which I have submitted to its decision on the subject of Insanity ; and the same fa- vourable interpretation is now solicited for the present performance, — which attempts the more difficult investigation of Sound Mind. In treating of Mental Derangement, I became very early sen- sible, that a competent knowledge of the faculties and operations of the Intellect in its healthy state, was indispensably a 3