A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity.
Ray, I[saac]. A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. Reprint edition. Birmingham: Legal Classics Library, 1987. xv, 480 pp. Pale brown full calf, extra-gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Fine. $20. * Reprint of the first edition. Originally published in 1838, this was one of the first treatises on the subject and the first to be accepted widely as authoritative. It is even cited today. Ray, an American psychiatrist, was one of the founders of forensic psychiatry. He was superintendent of the Maine State Asylum in Augusta from 1841-1845 and at the Butler Hospital for the Insane in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1845-1866. Frey & Kronick, Landmark Books in Legal Medicine: A Checklist of Forensic and Medico-Legal Books to 1900 403. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 8831.
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