Visions; A Story of False Sight (Pseudopia) by Edward H. Clarke, MD/Introduction by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1878

Boston, MA: Houghton, Osgood & Company, 1878 Houghton, Osgood & Company, Boston, MA. 1878. Hardcover. First Edition (matching dates on title page and copyright). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good+; wear to all tips, head, and tail, small tear on tail; missing small piece on head; slight hinge separation between FFFP and frontispiece. No DJ. Green cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine; embossed decorative boards. 315 pp 12mo. Visions have not only been recognized as part of the mysterious phenomena of disease, but of the equally mysterious phenomena of unrealities of health, except for apostles and teachers, the vast majority are delusions, vagaries, fancies of mankind or phenomena of disease such as hallucination, illusion, and delusion. The author goes into the causes of them from, effects of habit, relations with the blood, and the effects of drugs (opium, hashish, alcohol, ether, quinine, digitalis). There are many case studies and even a section on visions in children. A clean and presentable copy.