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(MEDICAL/PSYCHIATRY--PERIODICAL). The American Journal of Insanity, Edited by the Officers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, Utica. Volume 1 - volume 4.
Utica: Printed by Bennett, Backus, & Hawley, 1844-5 to 1847-8. Vol. I, No.1, July 1844 through Vol. 4, April 1848. Four volumes bound in two. The first four volumes of this journal. With the signature of Dr. M.G. Porter on the title-page of volume 1 and 4, and with the signature note from Dr. C.B. Farrar ‘Jan. 1908 from Dr. E.N. Brush' on the verso of the front free e/paper of volumes 1 and 3. Tall thick 8vo., contemporary half calf, marble boards, leather spine labels, Volume IV contains two folding plans, one of the' State Lunatic Asylum at Utica', the other a ‘Plan of the Pleasure Grounds and Farm at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane at Philadelphia.' Scattered foxing, some offsetting, spines rubbed with wear to the ends but o/w a very good copy of the first four volumes of this influential publication, with interesting provenance.
Dr. M.G. Porter served as the Resident Officer of the Utica State Hospital, 1849-1851. Dr. Edward Nathaniel Brush [1852-1933], who gave these volumes to Dr. C.B. Farrar (according to Farrar's annotation) was an American physician, mental hospital administrator, and an editor of psychiatric journals. In 1878 he was an assistant physician at the Utica State Hospital and remained there until 1884. The Utica State Hospital published The American Journal of Insanity, with Dr. John Gray as editor, and Brush an associate editor. After his retirement in 1920, Brush continued to serve on the editorial Board and as editor of the journal, which became the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1921. In 1931 Brush became Editor Emeritus. Dr. Clarence B. Farrar [1874-1970] Born in Cattaraugus, New York, Farrar studied at Allegheny College and Harvard before earning his M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School. Farrar studied under William Osler at Hopkins followed by postgraduate study with Emil Kraepelin, Franz Nissl, and Alois Alzheimer. ‘As a chief psychiatrist for the Canadian Army during WWI, Captain Farrar researched psychiatric cases of soldiers with shell shock and published his findings with Charles Kirk Clarke. 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 of the TPH to continue as the Department's clinical, teaching, research and administrative nexus until succeeded in 1966 by the Clarke Institute' (TPH: History and Memories of Toronto Psychiatric Hospital by Edward Shorter). Farrar was also the editor of The American Journal of Psychiatry for 34 years.
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(MEDICAL/PSYCHIATRY--PERIODICAL). The American Journal of Insanity, Edited by the Officers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, Utica. Volume 1 - volume 4. Utica: Printed by Bennett, Backus, & Hawley, 1844-5 to 1847-8. Vol. I, No.1, July 1844 through Vol. 4, April 1848. Four volumes bound in two. The first four volumes of this journal. With the signature of Dr. M.G. Porter on the title-page of volume 1 and 4, and with the signature note from Dr. C.B. Farrar ‘Jan. 1908 from Dr. E.N. Brush' on the verso of the front free e/paper of volumes 1 and 3. Tall thick 8vo., contemporary half calf, marble boards, leather spine labels, Volume IV contains two folding plans, one of the' State Lunatic Asylum at Utica', the other a ‘Plan of the Pleasure Grounds and Farm at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane at Philadelphia.' Scattered foxing, some offsetting, spines rubbed with wear to the ends but o/w a very good copy of the first four volumes of this influential publication, with interesting provenance.
Dr. M.G. Porter served as the Resident Officer of the Utica State Hospital, 1849-1851. Dr. Edward Nathaniel Brush [1852-1933], who gave these volumes to Dr. C.B. Farrar (according to Farrar's annotation) was an American physician, mental hospital administrator, and an editor of psychiatric journals. In 1878 he was an assistant physician at the Utica State Hospital and remained there until 1884. The Utica State Hospital published The American Journal of Insanity, with Dr. John Gray as editor, and Brush an associate editor. After his retirement in 1920, Brush continued to serve on the editorial Board and as editor of the journal, which became the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1921. In 1931 Brush became Editor Emeritus. Dr. Clarence B. Farrar [1874-1970] Born in Cattaraugus, New York, Farrar studied at Allegheny College and Harvard before earning his M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School. Farrar studied under William Osler at Hopkins followed by postgraduate study with Emil Kraepelin, Franz Nissl, and Alois Alzheimer. ‘As a chief psychiatrist for the Canadian Army during WWI, Captain Farrar researched psychiatric cases of soldiers with shell shock and published his findings with Charles Kirk Clarke. 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 of the TPH to continue as the Department's clinical, teaching, research and administrative nexus until succeeded in 1966 by the Clarke Institute' (TPH: History and Memories of Toronto Psychiatric Hospital by Edward Shorter). Farrar was also the editor of The American Journal of Psychiatry for 34 years.
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