Observations on Madness and Melancholy

Name: Observations on Madness and Melancholy
Author: John Haslam

by John Haslam

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Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)

Release date

2011-08-21

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Psychology, Pathological Psychiatry -- Early works to 1900 Depression, Mental Melancholy

About the author

John Haslam

1764–1844

Best known for his vivid early writing on mental illness, this London physician left behind one of the most memorable case studies in psychiatric history. His work at Bethlem Hospital helped shape how doctors began to describe delusion in careful, human detail.

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