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A treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind.

Publication Details

London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1835 CE.

Prichard, better known for his work in the field of anthropology (No. 159), was the first to describe moral insanity. He described a syndrome he called incoherence or senile dementia. Alzheimer (No. 4956) may have described essentially the same disorder. Reprint of Philadelphia, 1837 edition, New York, Arno Press, 1973.

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Geographic Context

Publication place: London

Mentioned in annotation: Philadelphia; New York