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8vo, pp. xii, 333, [1] errata, with Wve printed tables in the text and six
engraved fold-out plates bound at the end; contemporary pale-blue
glazed boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; some wear to
foot of spine where a shelf-label has been removed; with discard stamp
of the Standesherrschaft Königsbrück and Sächsische Landesbibliothek
to title and verso of title; a very clean and crisp copy; manuscript note to
front free endpaper.
First edition of this detailed account of hospital management and procedures
by Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn, head of the Berlin Charité between
1806 and 1818. Horn begins with a brief description of the structure and
history of the Charité, before giving a very close account of its economic
situation, with detailed Wgures of patient numbers, expenses for pharmaceuticals,
food and drink, salaries, building and maintenance etc. In the
second half Horn concentrates on the mental hospital within the Charité,
of which he was the head physician. He gives a detailed account of medical
procedures and the treatment of patients. Sample therapy sessions are
described and analysed on the folding tables. Some of the more bizarre
equipment used to restrain and treat mental patients is illustrated on the
folding engraved plates at the end.
Horn (1774–1848) is generally considered the Wrst practicing psychiatrist
at the Charité Hospital. In the early nineteenth century psychiatry
as a scientiWc discipline was still in its infancy. It was generally believed
that mental illness was largely due to physical suVering, and mechanical
devices were used for therapeutic purposes. Horn was well-known for the
use of various restraining and coercive devices in his treatment of mental
patients, centrifugal devices, such as rotating beds and rotating chairs for
treatment of hysteria. Horn had to leave his position at the Charité, when
he was denounced by a colleague for his treatment of mental patients. This
publication was written as a documentation of his work at the Charité and
a defence of his procedures.
Not in Wellcome; OCLC lists National Library of Medicine, Chicago, and Yale.
Baltic German
57 [HUPEL, August W.] Idiotikon der deutschen Sprache in
Lief- und Ehstland (!). Nebst eingestreueten Winken für Liebhaber.
Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1795. £480
8vo, pp. xx, 272, [3] errata; paper lightly browned throughout; uncut
in contemporary blue boards, rebacked; ownership inscription to front
pastedown; a good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of this detailed study of the Baltic German
language as spoken in Lithuania and Estonia. Hupel (1737–1819) was a
specialist in Baltic history.
Zaunmüller 74; ADB XIII, 422V; OCLC lists Stanford, Berkeley, Newberry,
Chicago, Amsterdam and Oxford.
catalogue fourteen