On the writing of the insane : with illustrations
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- Publication date
- 1870
- Topics
- Mental illness in literature, Mental illness, Mentally ill, Penmanship, Mental Disorders, Literature, Handwriting
- Publisher
- London : John Churchill and Sons
- Collection
- medicalheritagelibrary; francisacountwaylibrary; americana
- Contributor
- Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
- Language
- English
24 p. : 23 cm
- Addeddate
- 2010-11-04 14:36:34
- Bookplateleaf
- 0007
- Call number
- 005810408
- Camera
- Canon 5D
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1050241374
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- onwritingofinsan00baco
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t9c54d62j
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.37
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.21
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL24456287M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL15492949W
- Page-progression
- lr
- Page_number_confidence
- 0
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.3
- Pages
- 68
- Ppi
- 400
- Scandate
- 20101109092954
- Scanner
- scribe4.boston.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- boston
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 10755821
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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Subject: Interesting
Subject: Interesting
In this short book the author describes how the writing of asylum patients reflects the state of their sanity. He includes some amusing letters from patients and their relatives along with facsimiles of handwriting (most of it unintelligible). I liked the author's wry writing style.
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