tuke daniel hack 1827 1895 (3 Ergebnisse)

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On one side of a small plain card, the other side being addressed, with postmarks, to 'Prof: H: Obersteiner | Wien Döblin | Austria'. In good condition, lightly aged. Reads: 'I have received your magnum opus über [?] for the Journal of Mental Science for which I thank you and will place it in the hands of a Competent Reviewer'. Tuke had graduated M.D. at Heidelberg in 1853, and had become joint editor of the Journal of Mental Science in 1880. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'. The item is accompanied by a slip of paper on which Hunter writes: 'Given to me by Helmut Heintel | June 1975'.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. xiv, [1 leaf], 226, [10]ads. with half-title. original cloth (spine faded & trifle frayed). First Edition. Tuke, a distinguished physician, "was a prolific and suggestive writer, and was encyclopaedic in his knowledge of lunacy." (DNB) He was co-author, with Sir John Charles Bucknill, of A Manual of Psychological Medicine (1858), which was "for many years the standard English work on psychological medicine." (Garrison & Morton 4934) The present study includes discussion of mental illness among the working and upper classes, facts and figures relating to the increase of insanity, the importance of cheerfulness, rest, and diet in maintaining mental health, &c.