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CRICHTON, ALEXANDER, Sir. An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Mental Derangement. Comprehending a Concise System of the Physiology and Pathology of the Human Mind. And a History of the Passions and their Effects. Errata leaf in Volume 2. 2 volumes. 8vo, modern buckram; institutional stamp on titles, light dampstaining at end of Volume 1; bookplates. Signature of the Confederate surgeon Joseph Jones (1833-96) dated Savannah 1863. London: T. Cadell, junior, and W. Davies, 1798
first edition. "An important text from the formative period of psychiatry. Crichton combined philosophical psychology with his medical experience of mental disease into a physiology and pathology of mind. He used German case material for his examples and was the first to discuss forensic aspects in an English psychiatric text"--Rieber & Gach 118. Hunter & Macalpine, pages 559-64.
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