first edition of a collection of miscellaneous medical writings, including chapters on psychiatric topics. "Mead's greatest influence on psychiatry was his theory that insanity was incompatible with other major disease because the body had not the power to sustain the two simultaneously . . . In practice the concept of incompatibility of diseases gave a new lease of life to irritating, counter-irritating, and lowering treatments for the insane, all of which aimed at making them ill, if only temporarily"--Hunter & Macalpine, pages 385-86. Heirs of Hippocrates 771.
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