Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1701

ISAAC RAY (1807-1881) A treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity. William D. Ticknor 1844 2nd ed. xv, 490 pp. 19.1 cm.

Ray, one of the thirteen founders of the American Psychiatric Association, received his medical education at Harvard where he graduated in 1827. He entered private practice at Portland, Maine and was practicing at Eastport in 1838 when he published the first edition of the present work. In 1841 Ray was appointed superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane at Augusta, and in 1846 he was asked to assume the superintendency of the soon-to-be-established Butler Hospital at Providence, Rhode Island. He remained at Butler until 1867 when he retired because of poor health and moved to Philadelphia. This book became extremely well known and helped establish Ray as a foremost authority on the legal aspects of insanity. Ray's work was to go through six editions and was widely used as an authoritative source.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1739 (1st ed., 1838)