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[CRUDEN, ALEXANDER.] The London-Citizen Exceedingly Injured; or, A British Inquisition Display'd,in an Account of the Unparallel'd Case of a . . . Bookseller . . . sent . . . to a Private Madhouse. [4], 60 pages. 8vo, 193x114 mm, modern 1/2 sprinkled calf; title and last page soiled, title imprint cropped. London: T. Cooper and A. Dodd, 1739
Second edition of the first of Cruden's pamphlets concerning his confinements in private madhouses. Originally published the same year, it contains what might be the first published description of the straitjacket and its use. Hunter & Macalpine, page 358 ("a vivid picture of how patients fared in these establishments"). bound after: Manningham, Thomas. A Sermon upon the Union of the Two Kingdoms. 16 pages. London, 1707 Burnet, Gilbert. A Sermon preach'd before the Queen . . . on the 31st of December, 1706. 16 pages. London, 1707 Sharp, John. A Sermon preach'd at the Coronation of Queen Anne . . . Third Edition. 16 pages. London, 1708 Moss, Robert. The Providential Division of Men into Rich and Poor . . . in a Sermon preach'd . . . May the 27th, 1708. 16 pages. London, [1708?].
