 | Merle Eugene Curti - Social Science - 970 pages
...physical causation of many types of insanity had to wait for a full exposition until 1812, when Rush published his Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind. A far greater number of Americans glimpsed some small part of the materialistic outlook in the Thanatopsis... | |
 | Wayne J. Urban - Education - 2000 - 1372 pages
...exclusive care of the maniacs in the wards of the Pennsylvania Hospital. At the end of his life, he published his Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind, the first and for many years the only American textbook on the nature and treatment of insanity. Like Pinel,... | |
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... (1, vol. 2, p. 784). While Rush had arrived at the nucleus of his psychiatric theories by 1795, he continued to study the problem vigorously and to make many modifications, which appeared in a plethora of subsequent writings. Finally, in 1812, one... 