GEORGE III AND THE MAD-BUSINESS
Written by Ida Macalpine, Richard Hunter
Published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press
in 1969
ISBN: 0713901063
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GEORGE III AND THE MAD-BUSINESS
Written by Ida Macalpine, Richard Hunter.
Stock no. 1831206
1st.
1969.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
George III and the Mad-Business, argues that George III was not mad as was once thought. Instead, the author's claim that George suffered from the inherited metabolic disease, acute intermittent porphyria, a diagnosis they later amended to the milder, though even rarer disorder, variegate porphyria. This book is a fascinating combination of medical, pshychiatric and historical detection. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xv and 407 pages including index. ISBN: 0713901063. Text block lightly browned and lightly foxed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One: The Illness of the Regency Crisis 1788-9
- 1 The Cheltenham Episode
- 2 Crisis at Windsor
- 3 Confinement at Kew
- 4 Restored to Health
- 5 What Other Doctors Thought
- Part Two: The Other Illnesses
- 6 The Return of the Willises: 1801
- 7 Recurrence: 1804
- 8 The Regency: 1810-12
- 9 The Last Years: 1812-20
- 10 Porphyria
- 11 Retrospect: The Illness of 1765
- Part Three: The Family History
- 12 Historical Diagnosis
- 13 The Stuarts and the Tudors
- 14 The House of Hanover
- 15 The House of Brandenburg-Prussia
- 16 George III's Other Sons
- Part Four: Georgian Psychiatry
- 17 Dr Francis Willis: Insanity Proved Curable
- 18 Coercion and Restraint
- 19 Nervous Disorders and Insanity
- 20 Medical Arithmetick and Universal Prognosticks
- 21 MacFlogg'em: The Study of Mania
- 22 Crime and Insanity
- 23 Private Madhouses: 'A Fine Trade'
- 24 The Poor and Mad
- Part Five: Later Studies of George III's Illness
- 25 The Asylum Era: Acute Mania
- 26 The Era of Classification: Manic-Depressive Psychosis
- 27 The King on the Psychoanalytic Couch
- References
- Index