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History of Fear series

I wish there was more time so that I could scan and post the contents of this pamphlet, though sometimes you can get a pretty good insight into a work by reading the index–this is one of those times:

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It is a tough go.  

I had a difficult time categorizing this pamphlet outside of the obvious “history of medicine” category (broad, I know, but this is mainly a physics/maths place).  I did choose “History of Fear” as a category because in many cases the insane–and especially the unreachably insane, and beyond even that, the poor and unreachable insane–because there was little these people could “offer” to the world on the other side of their eyeballs other than the reminder that this condition could happen to anybody; that, and of course the state of physical fear because the medical community didn’t know what to do with these people for the most part.  This becomes painfully obvious before a reader makes it past the two pages of the index.  

Notes:

Provision for the Insane Poor. Extract from the Report of the Board of Public Charities for 1874.  Harribburg; B.F. Meyers, State Printer, 1875.  9×5″, 24pp, original printed wrappers.  Deaccession stamp on rear wrapper; also s small oval “Library of Congress/Smithsonian Deposit” stamp on the title page.  Four copies located by WorldCat: Duke, University Chicago, NY Academy of Medicine, College of Physicians of Philadelphia.