OBSCURE DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND MIND. BY FORBES WINSLOW, M.D., D.C.L., Oxon., = &c. &c. &c. Second American from the Third and Rebised English Edition. "that way Madness lies; let me shun that." KING LEAR. 44 'If our leg or arm offend us, we cobet by all means possible to redress it; and if we labor of a bodily discase, we send for a Physician; but, for the Diseases of the Mind, we take no notice. of them." BURTON'S "ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY." RC601 w 77 166 This Work is Dedicated BY HIS FRIEND, THE AUTHOR, ΤΟ A. BRIERRE DE BOISMONT, M.D., DE LA FACULTÉ DE PARIS, CHEVALIER DES ORDRES DE LA LÉGION D'HONneur, ETC. ETC. AS A MARK OF RESPECT FOR HIS PRIVATE CHARACTER, DISTINGUISHED TALENTS, AND HIGH PROFESSIONAL ATTAINMENTS; ALSO, IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE EMINENT SERVICES HE HAS RENDERED TO THE CAUSE OF SCIENCE, BY THE PROMULGATION OF HUMANE AND ENLIGHTENED VIEWS RESPECTING THE PHILOSOPHY OF INSANITY, AND THE TREATMENT OF THE INSANE, IN THE ABLE WORKS WITH WHICH HE HAS ENRICHED THE MEDICO PSYCHOLOGICAL LITERATURE OF HIS COUNTRY. 14576 |