1586 BRIGHT, Timothy (1551 – 1615)
A treatise of melancholie, containing the causes thereof.
First comprehensive description of depression in English. Bright also produced the first noteworthy geometrical system of shorthand, consisting of circles, half-circles, and straight lines (Characterie, London, 1588).
GMN 4918 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6076
1621 BURTON, Robert (1577 – 1640)
The anatomy of melancholy, what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it.
The first psychiatric encyclopedia, citing nearly 500 medical authors, and also a literary tour de force. Burton was prompted write this book because of his own bouts with depression. It is one of the most popular psy…
GMN 4918.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6080
1769 BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph (1731 – 1807); MARQUET, François-Nicolas (1687 – 1759)
Nouvelle méthode facile et curieuse pour connoitre le pouls par les notes de la musique, par feu M.F.N. Marquet. Seconde édition, augmentée de plusieurs observations et réflexions critiques, & d'une dissertation en forme de thèse sur cette méthode; d'un mémoire sur la manière de guérir la mélancholie par la musique, & de l'éloge historique de M. Marquet. Par Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz.
Buc'hoz applied his father-in-laws theories of music therapy to the treatment of depression. Digital facsimile from loc.gov at this link.
GMN 13008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15258
1892 –1896 BRAMWELL, Sir Byrom (1847 – 1931)
Atlas of clinical medicine. 3 vols.
Published at the end of the 19th century, and employing the wide variety of illustration technologies then available, including color lithography, lithography, and photography, this work testifies to the breadth and d…
GMN 10621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12814
1908 BEERS, Clifford Whittingham (1876 – 1943)
A mind that found itself.
In 1900 Beers was confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He was later confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During those periods he experienced and witness…
GMN 9724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11911
1990 JACKSON, Stanley W.
Melancholia and depression: From Hippocratic times to modern times.
GMN 9924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12112
2012 LAWLOR, Clark (1965 – )
From melancholia to Prozac: A history of depression.
GMN 9925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12113
