Item #62838 A History of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, Ecstasy, Magnetism, And Somnambulism. A. Brierre DE BOISMONT, Robert T. Hulme.
A History of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, Ecstasy, Magnetism, And Somnambulism.

A History of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, Ecstasy, Magnetism, And Somnambulism.

Philadelphia PA: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1855. First US Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xx + 17- 553pp. Twentieth century red buckram lettered in gilt on spine, index. The stated first American edition - though there is some evidence that there was an 1853 edition - of this landmark work on the subject of hallucinations which was first published in French in 1845 as "Des Hallucinations, ou Histoire raisonnée des apparitions, des visions, des songes, de l'extase, du magnétisme et du somnambulisme." The author, Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont (1797 – 1881) was a French physician, medical researcher, and psychiatrist. De Boismont was a prolific author, chiefly on medical subjects. In this, his best-known work, he explored the many different types of hallucinations, their possible triggers (such as religious enthusiasm), manifestations, cures, etc. Chapter headings: Chapter I. Definition and Division of Hallucinations; Chapter II. Hallucinations Consistent with Reason; Chapter III. Hallucinations of Insanity in its Simple State; Chapter IV. On Hallucinations as Connected with Illusions; Chapter V. Hallucinations Arranged in the Order of their Frequency; Chapter VI. On Hallucinations in Stupor; Chapter VII. On Hallucinations in Mania; Chapter VIII. On Hallucinations in Dementia; Chapter IX. Of Hallucinations in Delirium Tremens; Chapter X. Of Hallucinations in Nervous Diseases; Chapter XI. Of Hallucinations in Nightmare and Dreams; Chapter XII. Of Hallucinations in Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism; Chapter XIII. Of Hallucinations In Febrile, Inflammatory, Acute, Chronic, and Other Maladies; Chapter XIV. Causes of Hallucinations; Chapter XV. Of Hallucinations Considered in a Psychological, Historical, and Religious Point Of View; Chapter XVI. Physiology and Sympomatology of Hallucinations and Illusions; Chapter XVII. Pathological Anatomy; Chapter XVIII Progress — Duration — Diagnosis — Prognosis; Chapter XIX. Treatment of Hallucinations. Chapter XX. Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. (Modern) cloth a bit darkened and with a few faint marks from handling, page edges darkened with some spotting, pages browned at margins and evenly toned with occasional light foxing - but unmarked. A solid, unmarked VG copy. Item #62838

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