Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
John Caspar Spurzheim
Standard Name: Spurzheim, John Caspar
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The first edition of Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind or Insanity was published in England by prominent European phrenologist John Caspar Spurzheim
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Cooter, Roger. “Phrenology and British Alienists, ca. 1825-1845”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 58-104.