Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 to James Mease re: thanks for Mease's dissertation on canine madness

GLC06510

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GLC#
GLC06510
Type
Letters
Date
1792/05/31
Author/Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Title
to James Mease re: thanks for Mease's dissertation on canine madness
Place Written
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pagination
1 p. : address Height: 19.4 cm, Width: 23.7 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Early Republic

ALS in the third person, written horizontally and signed in text at the beginning. Thanking Mease for his "very learned and ingenious dissertation on canine madness" and discussing insanity. Jefferson mentions a cure by mercury of an American captive in Algiers, a cure mentioned in Mease's book. He suggests an experiment with animals, infecting them with madness and then attempting the cures. Docketed, with loss at the upper right corner of the address leaf.

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