Download or read book Medical Dissertations of Psychiatric Interest, Printed Before 1750 written by Oskar Diethelm and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In this book, Professor Diethelm uses 1100 of these disserations printed from 1750 to illustrate the development of psychiatry. What a wonderful work of scholarship this is - and how exciting must have been the chase, which has provided Cornell with a unique collection. A book for the bibliophile and collector with a specialist knowledge of psychiatric history.' British Journal of Psychiatry