A Treatise on Madness

William Battie's Treatise on Madness (1758) and John Monro's Remarks on Dr Battie's Treatise (1758).

William Battie, resident physician and driving force behind the foundation of St Luke’s asylum, published what was probably the first English medical monograph devoted to madness in 1758. A proponent of Enlightenment pedagogy, Battie advocated an optimistic view of the treatability of insanity, by management – rather than the ineffective and brutal purges, vomits and blood-letting then regularl...

A Treatise on Plague

son, m it.c.s.i. London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ld., 1901. Price 7s. Gd. It is somewhat remarkable that, though five years have now passed since the present pandemic of plague first made its appearance at Bombay, no book on the subject lias hitherto appeared based upon Indian experience. Reports written by medical officers, civilians, and even military officers we have had in abundance, but ...

A Treatise on Mortgages

A Treatise on Treatment

I.M.s. (retd.). The writer says he has "elaborately followed those methods of treatment to which general consent or weighty testimony has given a standard place." The first chapter begins well with an account of fever, and the problems of immunity. The chapter on tubercle is full of information and is less a string of prescriptions than many others are. We note even here the love of new drugs w...

A Treatise on Gout

worth has at length conferred upon the profession the welcome boon of issuing his long-contemplated work on gout. Amid all the high-sounding phrases and the straining after scientific precision with which modern medicine abounds, it seems suggestive of Arcadian simplicity to read a book by an author of Sir D. Duckworth's eminence, in which are upheld the importance of treatment, the validity of...