Author: Senkei, U.; [Translated by] Isain, I.
Title: Lektsii O Dushevnykh Bolezniakh (Lectures on Mental Illnesses)
Description: S. Peterburg (St. Petersburg), Izdanie O. I. Baksta, 1868. First Edition. First Russian edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [5], VI-VIII, 1-317, [3]; dark-brown, textured cloth over boards; purple, silk page marker; several small, rubbed spots along spine and corners; a few scattered spots of foxing; some of the text underlined in pencil; illustrated with a full-page plate of woodcuts; overall in very good condition. Although an early prototype of a psychiatric institution in Russia was established in 1706 in Novgorod and the first psychiatric hospital was ordered to be built in Moscow by Catherine the Great in 1785, it was not until 1847, when the first Russian manual on psychiatry was published. The current book, written by William Henry Octavius Sankey (1813 - 1889), originally published in 1866, detailed various mental and neurological diseases, including melancholy, idiotism, epilepsy, and others, their symptoms, treatments, prognosis, and so on. He was a professor of medicine in London, Superintendant of the female department of the Hanwell Asylum, and a respected member of various medical societies in Paris, New York, and London. He was also known for "doing everything in his power" to establish ways of more humane treatment of the insane. Very good .

Keywords: Psychiatry, Mental Illness


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