Mental illness - Early works to 1800
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Disputatio medica inauguralis de phrenitide : Quam, praeside Deo opt. max. ex authoritate magnifici rectoris, D. Theodori Ryckii ... Nec non amplissimi senatûs academici consensu, & almae facultatis medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus & privilegiis ritè ac legitimè consequendis, eruditorum examini subjicit Petrus Benier, Gerard. Fil., Batavoduranus. Ad diem 16 Iulii, loco horisque solitis.
Benier, Petrus, active 1682.Date: MD C LXXXII. [1682]- Books
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A treatise of dreams & visions : wherein the causes, natures, and uses, of nocturnal representations, and the communications both of good and evil angels, as also departed souls, to mankind, are theosophically unfolded; that is, according to the word of God, and the harmony of created beings. To which is added, a discourse of the causes, natures and cure of phrensie, madness or distraction. By Thomas Tryon, student in physick.
Thomas TryonDate: 1695- E-books
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Observations on insanity With practical remarks on the disease, and an account of the morbid appearances on dissection. By John Haslam, late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge, member of the corporation of surgeons, and apothecary to Bethlem-Hospital.
Haslam, John 1764-1844.Date: 1798- E-books
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A remarkable case of madness, with the diet and medicines . Used in the cure. By William Perfect, M.D. (of West-Malling, in Kent, and member of the London Medical Society.
Perfect, William 1737-1809.Date: 1791- Books
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Levamen infirmi: or, cordial counsel to the sick and diseased : Containing I. Advice concerning physick, and what a physician ought to be; with an account of the author's remedies, and how to take them. II. Concerning melancholy, frensie, and madness; in which, amongst other things, is shew'd, how far they differ from a conscience opprest with the sense of sin, and likewise how they differ among themselves. III. A miscellany of pious discourses, concerning the attributes of God; with ejaculations and prayers, according to scripture rule. Likewise an account of many things which have happen'd since the creation. To which are added several predictions of what may happen to the end of the world. The whole being enrich'd with physical, pious, moral & historical observations, delightful to read, & necessary to know. By D. Irish, practitioner in physick and surgery, now dwelling at Stoke, near Guilford in Surry, where he is ready to serve any person, to the utmost of his skill.
Irish, DavidDate: 1700