Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 95

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CONOLLY, JOHN. The Treatment Of the Insane Without Mechanical Restraints. 8vo, original cloth, expertly rebacked retaining faded original backstrip, hinges reinforced. London, 1856

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first edition. "Modelled on the non-restrictive policies adopted by Gardiner Hill at Lincoln Asylum [see lot 201], Conolly's abolition of all forms of physical restraint at Hanwell Asylum indicated a fundamental shift in psychiatric thought"--Norman 506. Garrison-Morton 4933; Hunter & Macalpine, pages 1030-1038.