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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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