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ARNOLD, THOMAS. Observations on the Nature, Kinds, Causes, and Prevention of Insanity . . . Second Edition, corrected and improved. lxviii, 298; viii, 314 pages; lacks the portrait. 2 volumes. 8vo, 225x140 mm, 19th-century cloth, spines faded, shelf labels removed; scattered minor foxing. Bookplate of The Royal Medico-Psychological Association on front pastedowns, their stamp on title and last page in both volumes. London: R. Phillips, 1806
Second edition of Arnold's major work, first published in 1782-86. The first volume deals with classification, the second with causes of insanity. A third volume on treatment was published independently in 1809 as Observations on the Management of the Insane. "Historically Arnold's importance was that he attempted a new classification of insanity by mental symptoms 'drawn with some care and exactness immediately from nature' rather than by arbitrary or social assessment of degree of madness, prevailing affective state or presence of fever"--Hunter & Macalpine, page 469. Garrison-Morton 4920.
