PSYCHIATRIC

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[ Sir James Crichton-Browne, physician and psychiatrist. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('James Crichton Browne') to 'Mr. Graves' [ Alfred Perceval Graves ], offering to arrange a course of lectures at the Royal Institution 'on Welsh and Irish Music'.

Author: 
Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938), Scottish physician and psychiatrist [ Alfred Perceval Graves (1846-1931), Irish poet ]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of 45 Hans Place, SW1 [ London ]. 17 November 1919.
£65.00

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. He finds that he will be able to arrange 'a course of 3 afternoon lectures for you on Welsh and Irish Music . . at the Royal Institution during next week'. He asks Graves to 'communicate with the Assistant Secretary as to date and exact title'. He ends by stating the fee.

[British Army printed circular.] Notes on Psychiatric Disabilities in the Army.

Author: 
[British Army; Royal Army Medical Corps; psychiatry; psychiatric battle casualties; shellshock]
Publication details: 
Place and source not stated. [London: [Royal Army Medical Corps?] 'Revised. | February [amended in manuscript to 'July'] 1944.'
£180.00

6pp., foolscap 8vo. Duplicated typescript on three leaves of pink paper pinned together. In fair condition, aged and worn, with two fold lines.

[printed advertisement for Samuel Hare's Castleton Lodge lunatic asylum] Retreat near Leeds, for the Reception and Recovery of Persons afflicted with Disorders of the Mind. [with engraving by J. N. Bean of Leeds from drawing by T. Burras]

Author: 
Samuel Hare, surgeon, proprietor of the Castleton Lodge lunatic asylum, near Leeds [J. N. Bean of Leeds, engraver; T. Burras, artist; nineteenth-century madhouses; mental hospitals; psychiatric]
Publication details: 
[Undated, but with transcript of letter dated 20 November 1830.] W. Bean & Son, Printers, 92, Briggate, Leeds.
£45.00
Printed advertisement for Samuel Hare's Castleton Lodge lunatic asylum

Printed text: 8vo, 2 pp. Engraving: 8vo, with dimensions of image roughly 7 x 12 cm. Disbound. Text and engraving good, on aged paper. Printed text: 42 lines on first page; second page with printers slug at foot, beneath which has been subsequently printed a four-line footnbote in copperplate. On the recto Hare boasts that 'the most strict Attention is paid to the Medical, as well as Moral Treatment of the Individuals who are committed to his Care'.

Miss (E. F.) Boulton's Honour Proclaimed. By (Her Friend) Louis Collins.

Author: 
Louis Collins [Miss Emma Francis Boulton of Stanmore]
Publication details: 
London: Printed and published by L. Collins, care of T. Dixon, 16, Great Marlborough Street, W. [1893.]
£150.00

8vo: [ii] + 69 pp. Stapled pamphlet. In original light-blue printed wraps. Text clear and complete. In fair condition, on aged paper, slightly dogeared and with rusted staples, in creased and worn wraps. A singular production of profound psychiatric interest. Carries the following announcement on the title: 'I have now cleared my character to the world from the aspersions (that I deserted my friend by going to America and that I soon after married) which my enemies cast upon it.

Autograph Letter Signed ('J. S. Clouston') to 'A. Atkinson'.

Author: 
Sir Thomas Smith Clouston (1840-1915), physician-superintendant of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, and editor of the 'Journal of Mental Science'
Publication details: 
17 October 1904; on letterhead of Tipperlinn House, Morningside Place, Edinburgh [Scotland].
£65.00

12mo: 1 p. On lightly spotted and creased paper. Quintessential doctor's handwriting. He is sorry he cannot be present 'to hear Dr 's paper', and that he cannot find time to write a paper himself. 'The subject is an interesting & important one, & is part of a still larger one <...?> physiologically considered'.

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