SILAS WEIR MITCHELL - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 142282
Price: $280.00
SILAS WEIR MITCHELL
Note written and signed in a shaky hand
Autograph Note signed: "I send you with/pleasure my/autograph/S.
Weir Mitchell", 4½x2½ card. American physician and author Silas Weir
Mitchell (1829-1914) was a specialist in the study and treatment of
neurological disorders. During the American Civil War, Mitchell was in
charge of nervous injuries at Turners Lane Hospital in Philadelphia. The
author of a number of medical texts, including Injuries of Nerves and
Their Consequences (1872) and Fat and Blood (1877), Mitchell also
wrote short stories and such historical novels as Hugh Wynne, Free
Quaker (1897), The Adventures of François (1898) and The Red
City (1909). Mitchell prescribed "rest cures" for a variety of nervous
disorders, including what was called at the time "female hysteria." One of his
patients was Charlotte Perkins Gilman, whose 1892 short story "The Yellow
Wallpaper" - now considered a feminist classic - is narrated by a woman driven
insane by her "rest cure." Shaky handwriting, presumably the result of
advanced age. Pencil price (unknown hand) at upper right. Lightly toned.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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