Adolf Wachsmuth - Allgemeine Pathologie der Seele - 1859





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Adolf Wachsmuth, Allgemeine Pathologie der Seele, first edition from 1859 in German, half‑leather binding, 348 pages, 23 × 15.5 cm, in good condition with a gold‑embossed spine title and a spine repaired with the original material, stamped on the flyleaf.
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Adolf Wachsmuth
General Pathology of the Mind
Frankfurt/Oder? Meidinger Sohn & Comp.
1859
23 x 15.5 cm, half-leather binding of the period, gold-embossed back title, spine renewed with the old material, stamp on flyleaf, XII, 348 pp., occasional foxing
HIRSCH/H. V, 808; KREUTER III, 1515. Wachsmuth (1827-1865) was at the time of publication a private lecturer for general pathology and clinical medicine at the University of Göttingen. He undertook several journeys to visit foreign asylums. - NORMAN 2171: W. pointed out that not all brain lesions produce psychoses and not all psychoses are caused by organic brain diseases. He insisted on the need for proper clinical psychology. -
very rare! According to the stamp on the flyleaf, "founded for the Psychiatric Clinic of the Univ. of Cologne in 1920 by Geh. San. Rat Dr. A. Erlenmeyer"; the founder was the son of the well-known psychiatrist Adolph Albrecht E., founder of the Erlenmeyerkian institutions for mental and nervous illness in Bendorf. After the death of his father, Adolf E. took over the leadership of these institutions.
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Adolf Wachsmuth
General Pathology of the Mind
Frankfurt/Oder? Meidinger Sohn & Comp.
1859
23 x 15.5 cm, half-leather binding of the period, gold-embossed back title, spine renewed with the old material, stamp on flyleaf, XII, 348 pp., occasional foxing
HIRSCH/H. V, 808; KREUTER III, 1515. Wachsmuth (1827-1865) was at the time of publication a private lecturer for general pathology and clinical medicine at the University of Göttingen. He undertook several journeys to visit foreign asylums. - NORMAN 2171: W. pointed out that not all brain lesions produce psychoses and not all psychoses are caused by organic brain diseases. He insisted on the need for proper clinical psychology. -
very rare! According to the stamp on the flyleaf, "founded for the Psychiatric Clinic of the Univ. of Cologne in 1920 by Geh. San. Rat Dr. A. Erlenmeyer"; the founder was the son of the well-known psychiatrist Adolph Albrecht E., founder of the Erlenmeyerkian institutions for mental and nervous illness in Bendorf. After the death of his father, Adolf E. took over the leadership of these institutions.

