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HASLAM, JOHN. Observations on Madness and Melancholy. 3 leaves of publisher's ads at end. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf. 19th-century bookplate of Maurice FitzGerald, Knight of Kerry. London, 1809
Second edition, enlarged, of Haslam's first book, originally published in 1798 as Observations on Insanity, containing clinical and post-mortem observations and some of the first descriptions of general paralysis of the insane. "This edition includes an illustration of Haslam's infamous 'key,' an instrument used to force patients' mouths open to receive food, medicine, etc."--Norman 1015. Garrison-Morton 4794; Hunter & Macalpine, pages 632-39 (original edition).
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