Ueber familiäre Formen von cerebralen Diplegien.

£6,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A presentation copy, inscribed by the author “Herrn Dozent Dr J. Zappert d. Verf” in black ink to the front wrapper. The recipient, Professor Julius Zappert (1867-1941), was a highly regarded Viennese paediatrician and neurologist. A member of the Vienna Society for Psychology and Neurology, Zappert ranked alongside Freud as amongst the founders of childhood neurology in Germany. In 1898 Zappert was appointed head of the department for childhood nervous diseases at the Institut Max-Kassowitz in Vienna, a position that Freud had held from 1886 to 1896. He would continue his work in child neurology as the founding-director of the celebrated Kinderspital der Israelischen Kultusgemeinde in 1918, before emigrating from Vienna to England in 1938, the same year as Freud. The first separate appearance of Freud’s article “On familiar forms of cerebral diplegias”, being an offprint from the journal Neurologisches Centralblatt, comprised of an account of two brothers who suffered from an unusual hereditary neurological affliction closely resembling disseminated sclerosis. Although Freud’s productive early career work in neurology has been somewhat eclipsed by the sheer scale of his pioneering contributions to psychiatry, his contributions to the field of child neurology were well recognised in his time. “Freud’s major neurological publications after 1890 came at a time when he was already laying the foundations of modern psychiatry with the classic monographs, Studies on Hysteria (1893)

• Year: 1893

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