INSANE ASYLUMS]. ELLIS, William Charles A Treatise on the Nature, Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment of Insanity, with Practical Observations on Lunatic Asylums, and A Description of the Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the County of Middlesex, at Hanwell . London, 1838. Folding frontispiece plan of the Hanwell asylum. Cloth (spine faded with light wear at top). Ellis was the first resident medical superintendent of both the Wakefield Asylum in Yorkshire and the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum in Hanwell. His methods anticipated John Conolly's celebrated non-restraint system, introduced at Hanwell in 1839. Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 870-877; Norman 705. -- HILL, Robert Gardiner. A Concise History of the Entire Abolition of Mechanical Restraint in the Treatment of the Insane; and of the Introduction, Success, and Final Triumph of the Non-restraint System . London, 1857. Cloth (rebacked, front cover detached, Brooklyn Academy of Medicine library stamp on title-page). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Dr. W.C. Hood. Hill introduced the principle of total abolition of restraint in the treatment of the insane at the Lincoln Asylum in the late 1830s. His system inspired that of John Conolly and within a few years non-restraint had spread throughout Great Britain and made its way to the Continent and the United States. Hunter & Macalpine; Norman 1072. -- HILL. Lunacy: Its Past and Its Present . London, 1870. Cloth (spine faded, small stamp of the Library of the Edinburgh Royal College of Medicine on title-page). Norman 1073. -- KIRKBRIDE, Thomas Story. On the Construction, Organization and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane . Philadelphia, 1854. Engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved plans (light marginal dampstaining). Cloth (spine lacking). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Kirkbride to Dr. Willard Parker (the first American surgeon to operate successfully on an abscessed appendix while eating a tuna-salad sandwich). "Kirkbride was one of the most prominent figures in American psychiatry during the middle of the nineteenth century. His most important contribution to the care and treatment of the insane was the 'Kirkbride plan' for the design and construction of mental hospitals... He used the plan as the basis for [this book], which became the standard textbook on the subject in America" (Norman 1221). -- KIRKBRIDE. On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane . Philadelphia and London: 1880. Engraved frontispiece and plan. Cloth (ends of spine defective, inner hinges broken, library labels). Second Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Francis Wells. Norman 1222. -- SHARPE, James Birch Report, Together with the Minutes of Evidence, and an Appendix of Papers, from the Committee Appointed to Consider of Provision Being Made for the Better Regulation of Madhouses in England . London, 1815. Half morocco and marbled boards. Hunter & Macalpine; Norman 1933. Together 6 volumes, 8 o . Original cloth, except as noted. FIRST EDITIONS, unless otherwise indicated. (6)
INSANE ASYLUMS]. ELLIS, William Charles A Treatise on the Nature, Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment of Insanity, with Practical Observations on Lunatic Asylums, and A Description of the Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the County of Middlesex, at Hanwell . London, 1838. Folding frontispiece plan of the Hanwell asylum. Cloth (spine faded with light wear at top). Ellis was the first resident medical superintendent of both the Wakefield Asylum in Yorkshire and the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum in Hanwell. His methods anticipated John Conolly's celebrated non-restraint system, introduced at Hanwell in 1839. Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 870-877; Norman 705. -- HILL, Robert Gardiner. A Concise History of the Entire Abolition of Mechanical Restraint in the Treatment of the Insane; and of the Introduction, Success, and Final Triumph of the Non-restraint System . London, 1857. Cloth (rebacked, front cover detached, Brooklyn Academy of Medicine library stamp on title-page). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Dr. W.C. Hood. Hill introduced the principle of total abolition of restraint in the treatment of the insane at the Lincoln Asylum in the late 1830s. His system inspired that of John Conolly and within a few years non-restraint had spread throughout Great Britain and made its way to the Continent and the United States. Hunter & Macalpine; Norman 1072. -- HILL. Lunacy: Its Past and Its Present . London, 1870. Cloth (spine faded, small stamp of the Library of the Edinburgh Royal College of Medicine on title-page). Norman 1073. -- KIRKBRIDE, Thomas Story. On the Construction, Organization and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane . Philadelphia, 1854. Engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved plans (light marginal dampstaining). Cloth (spine lacking). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Kirkbride to Dr. Willard Parker (the first American surgeon to operate successfully on an abscessed appendix while eating a tuna-salad sandwich). "Kirkbride was one of the most prominent figures in American psychiatry during the middle of the nineteenth century. His most important contribution to the care and treatment of the insane was the 'Kirkbride plan' for the design and construction of mental hospitals... He used the plan as the basis for [this book], which became the standard textbook on the subject in America" (Norman 1221). -- KIRKBRIDE. On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane . Philadelphia and London: 1880. Engraved frontispiece and plan. Cloth (ends of spine defective, inner hinges broken, library labels). Second Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Francis Wells. Norman 1222. -- SHARPE, James Birch Report, Together with the Minutes of Evidence, and an Appendix of Papers, from the Committee Appointed to Consider of Provision Being Made for the Better Regulation of Madhouses in England . London, 1815. Half morocco and marbled boards. Hunter & Macalpine; Norman 1933. Together 6 volumes, 8 o . Original cloth, except as noted. FIRST EDITIONS, unless otherwise indicated. (6)
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