[Rarebooks] fs: Mad?!?! I'm NOT Mad!! (Insanity & Phrenology- 1834)

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Combe, Andrew.

"OBSERVATIONS ON MENTAL DERANGEMENT: Being an Application of the Principles 
of Phrenology to the Elucidation of the Causes, Symptoms, Nature, and 
Treatment of Insanity"

Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon; 1834.
First American edition.

A curious book -a real attempt to reform the medical thinking about 
insanity, the only problem being that Combe wanted to replace it with 
Phrenological principles. Curious it may have been, but it has also been 
called brilliantly written and was a very popular text and a real influence 
in its day. Combe (1797-1847) was an ardent admirer of that indefatigable 
pair of European phrenological champions- Drs. Gall and Spurzhiem. He 
founded the Phrenological Journal in 1823, and was also president of the 
Phrenological Society.

Hardcover.  6"x9", 336 pages; bound in the original pebbled cloth. Some 
cover wear and soil, a few minor spine chips; some minor internal foxing. 
19th century ownership label of Dr. S.E. Lawton affixed to the front 
pastedown. [29402] $325.00

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