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MEAD, Richard |
| Title: |
MONITA ET PRAECEPTA MEDICA |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, John Brindley, 1751. pp. xii, 272. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked. Marginal browning of pastedown, f.e.p., half-title and title.A few spots/ink stains on very occasional leaves, otherwise text crisp and clean. Bookplate of Dr William Sargant. Ex libris Aberdeen Medical Society 1793 handwritten on f.e.p., and on title with donor's name. |
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* This first edition in Latin not in Blake. Wellcome IV, p. 96; Waller 6398. Mead's last book and consisting of a wide range of miscellaneous writings on neurological, mental, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, eye, skin and other diseases and conditions - HoH 771. Mead paid considerable attention to mental illness and made a number of interesting observations. He doubted whether mania and melancholia were essentially different. However, Mead's greatest influence on psychiatry was his theory that insanity was incompatible with other major disease because the body had not the power to sustain the two simultaneously; this was later shown to be false but resurfaced in the 1930s in terms of the incompatibility of schizophrenia and epilepsy (Hunter & Macalpine, p. 385-6). The first edition is scarce. £75 |
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