A New View of Insanity: The Duality of the Mind Proved by the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Brain, and by the Phenomena of Mental Derangement, and Shewn to be Essential to Moral Responsibility. With an Appendix ... |
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| Title | A New View of Insanity: The Duality of the Mind Proved by the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Brain, and by the Phenomena of Mental Derangement, and Shewn to be Essential to Moral Responsibility. With an Appendix ... |
| Author | Arthur Ladbroke Wigan |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Dec 2005 |
| Length | 459 pages |
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