Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1929

DANIEL HACK TUKE (1827-1895) Chapters on the history of the insane in the British Isles. Kegan Paul, Trench 1882 x, 548 pp., 3 plates (front.), plan. 19.7 cm.

Tuke's great grandfather, William, founded the Retreat at York for insane persons of the Society of Friends and did much to improve the care and treatment of individuals confined to insane asylums. Tuke's father, Samuel, was treasurer of the Retreat and prepared an influential book on its history and development (see No. 1401). Daniel was the only family member to study medicine and received his medical degree from Heidelberg in 1853. He became physician at York and later practiced in Falmouth and taught psychiatry in Glasgow. His Manual of psychological medicine (London, 1858), written with John Charles Bucknill (1817-1897), was the first of the modern textbooks in this field. The author's chief aim in the present work is to present the most important aspects and events concerning the treatment of the insane in the British Isles. In so doing, he reviews their treatment from Saxon times and discuss the contributions of the major institutions serving the insane. Tuke covers the development and progress of legislation affecting treatment of the mentally ill and includes a chapter on the criminally insane. Treatment of the insane in Scotland and Ireland are also mentioned and the book concludes with a review of psychological medicine from 1844 to 1881.

See Related Record(s): 1401

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 5003

Gift of John Martin, M.D.