CRICHTON, Alexander (1760-1845). An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Mental Derangement. Comprehending a Concise System of the Physiology and Pathology of the Human Mind, and a History of the Passions and Their Effects . London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798. 2 volumes, 8 o (210 x 125 mm). (Some occasional pale browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed). Provenance : W. Cholmondeley (signatures on pastedowns); McGill University Library (ink inscriptions on titles; inkstamps on titles; bookplate); some pencilled marginalia. FIRST EDITION. "This important work broke new ground in psychiatry in a number of ways, not to mention that after an interval of 212 years it was the first psychiatric treatise by a physician to a London teaching hospital since Bright's (1586) Treatise of Melancholy ... [see lot 64] Crichton was also the first who discussed forensic aspects in an English psychiatric text. He observed that murder was not uncommonly committed from 'despair' and hid the wish for suicide..." (Hunter & Macalpine, pp.559-564). Waller 2216. (2)
CRICHTON, Alexander (1760-1845). An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Mental Derangement. Comprehending a Concise System of the Physiology and Pathology of the Human Mind, and a History of the Passions and Their Effects . London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798. 2 volumes, 8 o (210 x 125 mm). (Some occasional pale browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed). Provenance : W. Cholmondeley (signatures on pastedowns); McGill University Library (ink inscriptions on titles; inkstamps on titles; bookplate); some pencilled marginalia. FIRST EDITION. "This important work broke new ground in psychiatry in a number of ways, not to mention that after an interval of 212 years it was the first psychiatric treatise by a physician to a London teaching hospital since Bright's (1586) Treatise of Melancholy ... [see lot 64] Crichton was also the first who discussed forensic aspects in an English psychiatric text. He observed that murder was not uncommonly committed from 'despair' and hid the wish for suicide..." (Hunter & Macalpine, pp.559-564). Waller 2216. (2)
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