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The Curability of Insanity: A Series of Studies. By Pliny Earle, A.M., M.D., Late Superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum at Northampton, Mass.; Ex-President of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane; President of the New England Psychological Society; Honorary Member of the British Medico-Psychological Association; Corresponding Member of the New York Medico-Legal Society, and of the Medical Society at Athens, Greece; Member of the American Philosophical Society; of the Social Science Association, etc. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1887 [copyright 1886], first edition, 232 pp, 9 x 6", 8vo. **The first study is a reprint of the essay "The curability of insanity" published in 1877. The remaining studies were originally included int he annual reports (1876-77 - 1885-85) of the Northampton Lunatic Asylum. In fair condition. Brown cloth boards are scuffed at edges & worn at Cornes. Head and tail of spine bumped. Gilt lettering on front board bright and clean. Gilt lettering and ruling on spine is generally dulled, but still legible. Front gutter split - binding exposed. No known previous ownership - some instances of pencil marginalia. Tear exhibited on leaf of pages 85-6, text still legible. Tea-stains found on on pages 184 to 204 - text still legible. Light toning throughout text-block. Binding intact - front hinge fragile. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Pliny Earle II, MD (1809-1892) was an American physician, and poet. He was the son of the inventor Pliny Earle of the Earle family. Earle II graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1837, then studied in the hospitals of Paris, and visited institutions for the insane in European countries. In 1840 he became resident physician of the asylum for the insane (now known as Friends Hospital) at Frankford, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia), where he remained for two years. From 1844 to 1849, he was physician to Bloomingdale asylum in New York. In 1863, he became professor of materia medica and psychology at Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1871, Earle II visited forty-six institutions for the insane in Europe. He was, so far as known, the first person to ever address an audience of the insane in any other than religious discourse. His introduction of lectures on natural philosophy at the Frankford asylum was the initiative to a system of combined instruction and entertainment. He was also the founder of the American Medical Association, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, and the New England Psychological Society.
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