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Section 3: Psychiatry in English before 1901 (C-E)
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GM-5 4846; Wozniak Mind & Body #56 & page 52. The 2nd edition contains a new 5 page preface."Gathering a potpourri of some three dozen physical and mental symptoms (including insomnia, hyperaesthesia, pain, tinnitus, headache, inability to control the attention, mental irritability, hopelessness, and morbid fears), Beard characterized neurasthenia as a 'functional' nervous disorder. By this he meant simply to express his faith in the unity of the disease and in the eventual identification of an underlying organic pathology. Heavily dependent on the metaphors of the day, Beard conceptualized neurasthenia as a diminution or even complete failure in the power of the nervous system viewed as a closed circuit energized with a fixed quantity of nervous force. Individuals hereditarily underendowed with a supply of nervous energy might, under the varied and pressing demands of 19th century life, suffer in effect from a kind of circuit overload. Treatment, tailored to the individual, typically included some combination of diet, rest (with or without isolation) or work, massage, hydrotherapeutics, laxatives, cathartics, counter-irritants, internal medications, mental therapeutics, and galvanotherapy. … Concern with the peculiar problem of the relationship between mind and the function of the nervous system was no longer restricted to philosophers and scientists. [By the early 1890s] neurasthenia had joined hypnotic trance phenomena, mediumistic spiritualism, hallucinations, insanity, mental health, psychical phenomena, mental healing, and the nature of mind and will as given in consciousness as common currency among educated Americans" [Wozniak p. 52].
Cordasco 80-0380 (listing only NLM); OCLC lists only NY Academy of Medicine, Yale, Philadelphia Coll. of Physicians, and Lehigh.
Cordasco 70-0203. The first systematic American survey of intoxicants. Beard, of course, is most famous for originating the term and providing the standard description for neurasthenia.
Crabtree #1036.
An important paper that was reprinted in NAPIPI's founding document issued later the same year. Beard was the driving force among the radical neurologists, who were disgusted with the conservatism of the asylum superintendents. Though it didn't last long, the National Assocation stridently argued during its brief life for patient's rights, a harbinger of a trend that would become much more important in the 20th century.
Berkley was clinical professor of psychiatry at Hopkins. Probably the first extensive American neuropsychiatric text with its categories defined by Morel's concept of degeneration and leaning heavily on Beard and Mitchell. Under "Special Forms of Insanity Group III, Insanities of the Psychical Degenerate" come paranoia, the periodic insanities, epileptic insanities, psychoses accompanying or following both neurasthenia & hsyteria"; while under Group IV come "States of Arrested Psychical Development a) idiocy, b) cretinism, c) imbecility; and Group V "The Psychoses of Childhood."
Cordasco 00-0294. Contains a chapter on mid-19th century nervous and mental diseases.
Cordasco 00-0294.
- Contains Wilks' "On the Pupil in Emotional States";
- Ormerod's "On Epilepsy, in its Relation to Ear-Disease";
- Mercier's "A Study of a Case of Epilepsy";
- Hadden's "On Infantile Spasmodic Paralysis";
- Crichton-Browne's "The Pulmonary Pathology of General Paralysis";
- Grasset's "The Relations of Hysteria with the Scrofulous and the Tubercular Diathesis";
- Beevor's "On the Relation of the 'Aura' Giddiness to Epileptic Seizures";
- Donkin's "Note on a Case of Anaesthesia";
- Allbutt's "Case of Epileptiform Migraine";
- Mercier's "A Case of Epilepsy";
- etc.
Hunter & Macalpine pp. 1058-1062. Translation of the 1852 revised second edition ofDes Hallucinations, first published in 1845. A British edition appeared in 1859 as On Hallucinations.The first substantial psychiatric treatise on hallucinations, a term introduced to medical psychology only twenty years earlier by Esquirol. Believing they constitute a disease sui generis, Brierre de Boismont attempts to reclaim the subject for psychology from medical pathology. He discusses the occurrence of hallucinations in ordinary life, examines the hallucinations of dreams and nightmares and the their occurrence in animal magnetism, somnambulism, and ecstasy. The latter part of the book discusses the causes, symptomatology, and treatment. Widely read, his book influenced everyone writing about the subject after him.
Hunter & Macalpine pp. 1058-1062.
The first American neurology book, in which Brigham "discussed the structure and function of the brain, medulla, spinal cord, and cranial nerves. Although most of the clinical portions of the book deal with mental diseases, he did discuss inflammation of the brain, apoplexy, epilepsy, tinnitus, chorea, delirium tremens, and tic douloureux" DeJong History of American Neurology, p. 8.One of the 13 founders of the group that became the American Psychiatric Association, Brighham superintended the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, the first such institution in NY, and founded the American Journal of Insanity, the first English-language psychiatric journal.
Wozniak Mind & Body #50; Atwater Catalog #409. There were three American editions (1832, 1833, & 1845) and seven British editions between 1836 and 1844."At the time, fear was growing that the human nervous system was ill-adapted to cope with the increasing complexity of 'modern' life and that, as a result, insanity was on the increase. Brigham's work was the first published contribution to mental hygiene compiled for popular consumption. Written to stem the 'growing tide of insanity,' it provided the average reader with advice on the proper education of children, the importance of physical health, the dangers of excess mental excitement, and the need for improved education of women. For the first time, the importance of maintaining mental health became part of the American cultural ideal" [Wozniak, p. 49].
Written as a follow-up to his 1825 treatise on physiology as applied to pathology, these commentaries contain discussions of insanity, neuroses, neuropathy, idiocy, etc.. A French physician born at Saint-Malo, Broussais was appointed professor of general pathology at the University of Paris in 1821. An acrimonious opponent to Pinel's work, he believed that gastro-intestinal irritation was the cause of most diseases, including insanity.
Brittain Medico-Legal Bibliography p. 25; Sadoff Catalog p. 24. A Scottish-born lawyer educated at Edinburgh, Browne was the son of the notable asylum superintendent W. A. F. Browne. This, his first book and only book on insanity and the law, was intended as a practical reference manual for both lawyers and physicians. With 146 recent cases cited, it is an excellent period guide to the state of Victorian psychiatry and the law. Contains chapters on lunacy and limited responsibility; the causes of insanity; unsoundness of mind; amentia & its legal relations; intellectual mania; moral mania [more or less what we now call psychopathy]; partial moral mania; legal relations of mania, moral mania, dementia, epilepsy, somnambulism, drunkenness, aphasia, maniacal delirium [all separate chapters]; acute delirious mania; feigned insanity; concealed insanity; lucid intervals; admissability of the evidence of the insane; the prognosis of insanity; examination of persons supposed to be of unsound mind. A second edition appeared in 1875, expanded to include citations of American cases (with American editions in 1875, 1876, and 1880).
Brittain Medico-Legal Bibliography p. 25; Sadoff Catalog p. 24.
Bucke's first book (of three), published two years after his appointment as medical superintendent of the Asylum for the Insane in London, Ontario. In it one sees Bucke's early attempt to integrate the profound albeit fleeting mystical experience he had had in 1872 into an overarching theory of transpersonal human evolution, with love and faith ultimately vanquishing fear and hate in human moral development. Bucke's ideas reached their fruition in the 1901 Cosmic Consciousness, his magnum opus published shortly before his death in which he described the development of consciousness in three stages from simple (animals), through self-consciousness (typical humans), to cosmic (the next evolutionary stage).
Cordasco 80-0743. Chapters on psychological versus somatic theories of insanity, expert testimony, and an appendix giving judge's opinions in cases with the insanity plea.
The most important period psychiatric textbook and reference manual in English, of which there were four revised editions.
An interesting though entirely neglected optimistic argument for moral treatment, although the author favored the use of mechanical restraint, thought mental disease due to an abnormal condition of the blood, and advocated bleeding, purgatives, sedatives, tonics, and diuretics for treatment. In his preface Burnett argues for new legislation to increase the power of physicians in handling the insane.
An address read to the Germantown Medical Society on May, 22 1899. Burr was at the time Professor of Nervous Diseases in the Medico-Chirurgical College, University of Pennsylvania, ; later he was Professor of Mental Diseases.
Hunter & Macalpine pp. 777-783.
Regarded at the time as the most elaborate and complete treatise in English on insanity. Hunter & Macalpine praise Burrows for recognizing in the work of Bayle and Calmeil the description of a truly new clinical disease in which paralysis is cause rather than effect of insanity.
Brittain Medico-Legal Bibliography page 29. Contains an appendix on the English lunacy statutes.
Section 3: Psychiatry in English before 1901 (C-E)
Section 4: Psychiatry in English before 1901 (F-K)
Section 5: Psychiatry in English before 1901 (L-P)
Section 6: Psychiatry in English before 1901 (Q-Y)
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