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BATTIE, William

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Treatise on madness.

London: J. Whiston & B. White, 1758.

Battie was among the first to teach psychiatry at the bedside. His book is the first English text book on the subject. Reprinted with J. Monro’s Remarks on Dr. Battie’s treatise on madness, London, Dawsons, 1962.



Subjects: PSYCHIATRY