A Medical Treatise on Nervous Affections. The Result of an Extensive Experience in the Treatment of Nervous Disorders.
Boston: The Peabody Medical Institute, 1870. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2332504
First edition (Hoolihan 1585; not in Garrison-Morton). Uncommon - 13 in OCLC. Boards lightly soiled.
vi, 137, 7 pp. Black patterned cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped rules. Frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by F.H. Stuart of Boston. A medical work on nervous disorders, with discussions of the relationship between the body, mind, and soul, and thoughts on the varieties and causes of mental illnesses such as anxiety and phobias. Hoolihan 1585: "Hayes was the director of the Peabody Medical Institute (Boston), which specialized in the treatment of mental and nervous diseases with proprietary remedies. Hayes addresses five forms of 'mental or nervous disease,' which he assures his reader may be cured at the Institute or with remedies ordered therefrom: oppression, confusion, delusion, excitement and 'diminution' (i.e., 'absence of mental energy'). Though the means of cure employed by Hayes and his colleagues at the Peabody Medical Institute are never specified, abundant correspondence from the formerly afflicted testifies to the efficacy of what is several times referred to as simply the 'Discovery.'"
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