Cox's chair: 'A moral and a medical mean in the treatment of maniacs'

History of Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 073-088

  Wade, Nicholas J ^a   Norrsell, U ^b   Presly, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c University of Dundee ^*

Author keywords

Asylums; History; Human centrifuge; Mania; Psychiatry; Vertigo

Indexed keywords

CHAIR; EUROPE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MANIA; REVIEW; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTION SICKNESS;

CENTRIFUGATION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOTION SICKNESS;

EID: 21544460733     PISSN: 0957154X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X05046093     Document Type: Review

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