A history of clinical psychiatry: the origin and history of psychiatric disorders

description and bibliographic detail for individual items, as in her entry for a short treatise on urines that provides specific directions for investigation of possible Latin sources. In another instance, she warns readers when a text is misrepresented by its title (i.e., 'dieta ypocras' in MS R.14.32 [5]) and then cross-references other manuscripts in the handlist where the same title accurately denotes its text. Mooney has also provided various lists and indices that readers will find most useful, including a summary list of contents and indices organized according to incipits and rubrics, author, title, subject, and owners, scribes, and provenance, among others. This volume incorporates suggestions for improvement made concerning previous handlists in the series while following the general editorial and organizing principles set forth for the entire Index. At this geographical distance from the originals, I am unable to check Mooney's transcriptions of opening and closing lines of texts for omissions and inaccuracies. In general, though, Mooney has done scholars a great service with this volume: in her handlist of the "largest collection of medieval manuscripts of any college in Great Britain, and one of the most important collections in the world", as she states in her introduction, scholars in many disciplines, especially those in the history of medicine and science, will find much valuable material for further research.