MITCHELL, S[ilas] Weir

Lectures on the diseases of the nervous system, especially in women.

Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea’s Son & Co., 1881. 8vo. 238, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 5 plates (1 folding) and index. Original brown publisher’s cloth, covers lightly soiled, spine a bit worn. Item #11784

First edition, binding A of Mitchell’s first treatise on neurology, including his most comprehensive writings on different types of hysteria. It is considered to be one of the most important nineteenth-century American works on female neuropsychiatric problems. BAL, 6, 14102; BMC, XVII, 522 (2nd ed.); Cushing M403.

Price: $425.00