" The origins and development of the'wild beast'concept of mental illness and its relation to
the theories of criminal responsibility,"/. Hist. Behav. Sc., 1965, 1: 355-367; RH Dreher," Origin…

The author proposes that an adequate appreciation of the American mental health movement
will require, ultimately, an appreciation of the concurrent developments in the histories of …

The history of Anglo-American attitudes regarding the criminal responsibility of the insane is
characterized by a resonance between the wish to punish and the willh to protect and treat. …

Ten years after the initial decline of mesmerism and five years after the publication of Luigi
Galvani's work on animal electricity, Dr. Elisha Perkins of Plainfield, Connecticut, obtained a …

… The history of acupuncture, in the twentieth as well as the ninetee century, suggests a
compulsive repetition of premature verdicts by m of the Western medical and scientific communities…

Lydia Rea of Beverly, Massachusetts. The spelling was changed sometime after his birth.
He gradu Academy at Andover in 1822 and entered Bowdoin Maine, in October of that year. …

American forensic psychiatry was founded in 1838 with the publication of Isaac Ray's Treatise
on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity. Ray's ideas were influential in the early history …

Discusses Mermerism and E. Perkins's celebrated" tractors" as examples of 19th century
medicine's seeming inability to distinguish between fallacious theory and therapeutic fact. …

This article on historical aspects of forensic psychiatry focuses on the work of Isaac Ray, the
father of American forensic psychiatry and places current issues in proper perspective. Dr. …

As one reviews the history of p~ ychiatry, it becomes clear that, with the possible exception
of Adolf l\leyer, no psychiatrist in 19th century;\merica approached Isaac Ray's stature, or the …