Insanity

Date:
c. 1855
Reference:
MS.2996
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About this work

Description

An incomplete treatise on Insanity. The volume ends at about the middle of the eleventh chapter. According to the table of contents there should be 18 chapters, and over 778 pages.

Publication/Creation

c. 1855

Physical description

1 volume 8 bl. ll. + 1 l. + 446 pp. + 8 bl. ll. 4to. 19 × 191/2 cm. Original half-calf binding. Labelled on the spine 'Insanity'. The MS. is written on Whatman paper dated 1852.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1932.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Ownership note

Ex-libris of Randolph Berens.

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Accession number

  • 77735