PACKARD, Mrs. E.P. W. Modern Persecution, Or Insane Asylums Unveiled As Demonstrated by the Report of the Investigating Committee of the Legislature of Illinois. Published by the Authoress. (Volume II titled: Modern Persecution or Married Woman's Liabilities, as Demonstrated by the Illinois Legislature).
Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1873. In two volumes. First edition. From the library of Dr. C.B. Farrar with his bookplate and notes on the rear e/paper. 8vo., orig. brown cloth with gilt decoration on the covers, elaborate gilt on the spine, A.E.G., xxxii, 402; viii, 406pp. With illustrations. A fine bright copy of a scarce edition.
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard [1816-1897] reformer, "whose experience in a
mental hospital launched her on a career as an advocate of married women's
rights and protective legislation for the insane.....Mrs. Packard's
influence on popular attitude toward mental hospitals was more important
than the laws for which she was responsible. She not only solicited
newspaper publicity, she talked at length to everyone who bought one of her
books. " Dr. Clarence B. Farrar [1874-1970] "trained under several of the foremost
medical scholars of his era beginning with Osler and then at Heidelberg
under Kraepelin, Nissl and Alzheimer. Farrar was hand-picked by Prof.
Charles Clarke, the University's inaugural head of Psychiatry, to succeed
him in both that chair and as the first Director of the Toronto Psychiatric
Hospital (TPH) opening in 1925. Farrar served in those capacities until
1947, setting the stage for the TPH to continue as the Department's
clinical, teaching, research and administrative nexus until succeeded in
1966 by the Clarke Institute." Dr. Farrar also served as the editor of the
American Journal of Psychiatry. (TPH: History and Memories of Toronto
Psychiatric Hospital by Edward Shorter).
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