Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
CONOLLY, JOHN. The Treatment of the Insane Without Mechanical Restraints. xii, 380 pages. 8vo, 219x139 mm, original cloth, recased, endpapers renewed, spine faded, chipped at bottom; half-title and last page toned, contents otherwise clean. Stamp of the Kings County Medical Society on title. London: Smith, Elder, 1856

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first edition. "Modelled on the non-restrictive policies adopted by Gardiner Hill at Lincoln Asylum, 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.