PRICHARD (James Cowles). A Treatise on Insanity and other Disorders affecting the Mind.1837

Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, First American edition, 337, [1]pp., advertisement leaf at end, name on upper blank margin of title, light toning of the text in places, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, calf label and spine chipped, uncut. "Prichard was the first English psychiatrist who separated from the omnibus 'insanity' a 'new' group of mental disorders which he called 'moral insanity' and so added a new term to psychiatric nosography." - Hunter and MacAlpine. *****He gave a brief description of it in an article in the 'Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine' edited by J. Forbes, London, 1833-5, 11, p.12. This was afterwards enlarged into this famous 'Treatise on Insanity.', first published in London in 1835. Hunter and MacAlpine, pp.836-42; Garrison and Morton, 4928; Heirs of Hippocrates, 1421.