Practical observations on insanity : in which some suggestions are offered towards an improved mode of treating diseases of the mind, and some rules proposed which it is hoped may lead to a more humane and successful method of cure ; to which are subjoined remarks on medical jurisprudence as connected with diseased intellect / by Joseph Mason Cox, M.D. ; from the second corrected and enlarged London edition.

  • Cox, Joseph Mason, 1762-1822.
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Practical observations on insanity : in which some suggestions are offered towards an improved mode of treating diseases of the mind, and some rules proposed which it is hoped may lead to a more humane and successful method of cure ; to which are subjoined remarks on medical jurisprudence as connected with diseased intellect / by Joseph Mason Cox, M.D. ; from the second corrected and enlarged London edition. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Published by Thomas Dobson, at the Stone House, no. 41, South Second Street ; Fry and Kammerer, printers, 1811.

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xi, 2 unnumbered pages, 14-238 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm

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Shaw & Shoemaker 22632
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law, 8813
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 551

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Title leaf is a cancel
"Appendix. I. On the mode of granting certificates. II. On medical jurisprudence in cases of insanity": p. [197]-226
First published in London in 1804. The 2d ed. appeared in London in 1806
"Hints on the treatment of insane persons" (p. [227]-238) newly added in this edition. They were "published in the Eclectic repertory" (Philadelphia, v. 2, p. 105-110, Oct. 1811) and "have been chiefly drawn from the experience of the Retreat, near York (Eng.)"
Film 633 reel 30 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 30, no. 551).

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