HASLAM, John (1764 – 1844)
1764 – 1844
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Henry Dawe / After George Dawe · ihm.nlm.nih.gov · Public domain
1798 CE
#4794
Observations on insanity.
Haslam was among the first to describe general paralysis; he recorded three cases (pp. 64, 67, 92, 120).
1810 CE
#4924.1
Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity… with a description of the tortures experienced by bomb-bursting, lobster-cracking and lengthening the brain.
The first medical book devoted to a single case of insanity, and the first illustration of an influencing machine, commonly complained of by paranoid patients.
1817 CE
#7108
Medical jurisprudence as it relates to insanity, according to the laws of England.
The first English work on the forensic aspects of mental illness. Digital facsimile from Wellcome Forensics Collection, Internet Archive, at this link.