COMBE (Andrew). Observations on Mental Derangement: Being an Application of the Principles of Phrenology to the Elucidation of the Causes, Symptoms, Nature, and Treatment of Insanity.1831

Edinburgh: John Anderson, First edition, 8vo (200 x 115 mm), xxxvi, 392 + 12pp., of publishers' adverts at the front and 4pp., at end, with half-title, faint unobtrusive stamp to title, new endpapers, later quarter blue morocco by Chivers of Bath, untrimmed. Combe maintained that mental disorder was in fact a 'symptom of cerebral disease', and therefore to be regarded in the same way as the diseases of any other organ. Provenance: Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 812-18; Wellcome II, p. 376.