Über Geisteskhankheit In Alter Und Neuerzeit. Ein Stück Kultur-geschichte in Wort und Bild, von Dr. med. H. A. Adam. Published by  Verlag Ludwig Rath, Regensburg. 1928. Pp.  158, illus.

This little work is a brief survey of the history of mental disease from the earliest times up to the present. It is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the situations prevailing until the middle of the Nineteenth Century, the second part deals with the transition period to modern times and the third part deals with modern conditions, more particularly as regards institutional conditions. The outstanding feature of the work is the very excellent illustrations, ninety-six in number, which carry one through the chapters almost without the necessity of reading the text. Among the pictures is a reproduction of the famous painting of Pinel freeing the patients from the Salpetrière, the equally famous picture of Hogarth of the interior of Bedlam, and the very well known picture to all psychiatrists of von Kaulbach of a group of patients in a hospital courtyard. All manner of construction and restraint apparatus are shown and one is reminded again of the very unlovely history of this department of medicine. Equally impressive are the marvelous changes which have occurred in modern times as they are also depicted in the illustrations.

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