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Lettsomian lectures on insanity

"The author delivered the three Lectures embodied in this volume before the President, Council, and Fellows of the Medical Society of London. The first lecture deals with the psychological vocation of the physician. The next discourse addresses both the etiology and medical treatment of insanity. The final lecture deals with the physician's role in presenting medico-legal evidence in cases of insanity. When the London Medical, and Westminster, Societies were amalgamated, in 1850, the Council, in order to do honour to the name and memory of Dr. Lettsom, the illustrious founder and noble benefactor of the parent institution, established two Lectureships, to be held annually by a physician and surgeon, who were to be designated the "Lettsomian Professors of Medicine and Surgery." These lectures were presented in that context." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved).

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