Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
GRIESINGER, WILHELM. Die Pathologie und Therapie der psychischen Krankheiten, für Aertzte und Studierende dargestellt. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, flat spine attractively gilt; contents variously foxed. Stuttgart, 1845

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first edition. "Griesinger was a pioneer and leader of the influential German school of somatic psychiatry, which held that all psychic diseases were symptoms of organic brain disturbance . . . Griesinger's somatic psychiatry also put an end to the moralistic theory of insanity"--Norman 948. Garrison-Morton 4930; Zilboorg, pages 435-38.