ARNOLD THOMAS Observations on the Nature Kinds Causes and Pr

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ARNOLD, THOMAS. Observations on the Nature, Kinds, Causes and Prevention of Insanity. [4], xv, [1], 324, viii; [4], vi, [6], 541, [5] pages, including half-titles and bookseller's catalogues at end of each volume. 2 volumes. 8vo, late 19th-century cloth, rubbed. Stamps and bookplates of Liverpool Medical Institution and Kings County Medical Society. Leicester: G. Ireland for G. Robinson and T. Cadell, 1782-86

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first edition of Arnold's major work. The first volume dealt 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 social assessment of degree of madness, prevailing affective state, or presence of fever"--Hunter & Macalpine, pages 467-71. Garrison-Morton 4920 ("best historical account to the time").