Author : J. L. C. Schroeder Van Der Kolk
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365049029
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Pathology and Therapeutics of Mental Diseases (Classic Reprint) by : J. L. C. Schroeder Van Der Kolk
Download or read book The Pathology and Therapeutics of Mental Diseases (Classic Reprint) written by J. L. C. Schroeder Van Der Kolk and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pathology and Therapeutics of Mental Diseases The Utrecht Professor, J. L. C. Schroeder van der Kolk (the renovator of the Dutch Institution for the Insane), whose death took place early in May, 1862, was long occupied with the plan of comparing together his physiological studies and his practical experience of mental diseases in order to lay them before the public. But as so often happens in life, he yet needed some special inducement to enter upon the work, and the occasion presented itself in the autumn of 1861, when two students of medicine in Utrecht, Herr P. Templeman van der Hoeven, and the undersigned, from the want of a psychiatric clinic at our University, betook themselves to Schroeder van der Kolk, with a request to be introduced under his guidance into the domain of Mental Diseases. He readily acceded to our request, and immediately arranged that we should come to his study twice a week, when he would read to us what he had elaborated for his book, and converse with us thereupon. We have thus seen the book arise, have recognised its object, and we are aware of the value the author set on it, and of how much time and trouble it had cost him. He accomplished the undertaking with assiduous zeal, as if he felt that his career was hastening to its end, and that he must bestir himself to complete the crowning work of his literary activity. Death, indeed, overtook him while engaged in this labour, but he previously expressed his wish-that the work should be published. My friend, Dr. H. W. Schroeder van der Kolk, then paid me the compliment of entrusting to me the fulfilment of his father's wish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
