Annual Reports 1st-18th

Reports detail the various types of treatment available at Crichton Royal Institution and the many activities on offer to patients, as well as discussing diagnoses. These reports are appended with twelve uniform statistical tables, except the first which has fourteen. In addition to the main tables, there are also extra tables within the reports which vary from year to year and relate to subjects such as the occupations carried out by male patients, lists of articles made by female patients engaged in sewing, entertainments and amusements and types of narcotics used. In his reports Dr W. A. F. Browne espouses the benefits of moral treatment and explains asylum treatment.

1839-1857

1 volume

On the first page there is a manuscript note by Dr C. C. Easterbrook, 'This volume of Dr W.A.F. Browne's Annual Reports of the CRI (from June 1839 to November 1857) was purchased from the Library of the late Sir Arthur Mitchell, formerly one of the Medical Commissioners of the General Board of Lunacy for Scotland, by Dr C. C. Easterbrook, and re-bound by him and presented to the medical library of the Institution on his retirement in 1937. CC Easterbrook'.

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