A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity
by: Ray, Isaac

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, The Legal Classics Library , reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Octavo in gilt decorated brown leather. 480 pages. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. A deluxe reprint of the 1838 edition published in Boston. This was one of the first treatises on the subject and the first to be accepted widely as authoritative. It is even cited today. Ray, an American psychiatrist, was one of the founders of forensic psychiatry. He was superintendent of the Maine State Asylum in Augusta from 1841-1845 and at the Butler Hospital for the Insane in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1845-1866.