Modern Mental Treatment: A Handbook for Nurses

London: Faber & Faber, 1947.
First Edition.

14cm x 11cm. 88 pages. Blue cloth.

The first book by the English psychiatrist who went on to overhaul Victoria’s mental health system. A pocket guide for psychiatric nurses to electroconvulsive therapy, insulin coma, prolonged narcosis, leucotomy and malaria therapy. Includes illustrations of electroshock equipment and a brief outline of the drugs then used in psychiatry. This copy with stamps of the Ballarat Mental Hospital. A single copy recorded in Trove, at Monash.

Some small patches of insect damage to cloth. Good Condition.

AU$150