The Haskell F. Norman Copy

Vienna: Verlag von Moritz Perles, 1891. First edition. 8vo. (ii), 220, (2) pp. From the science and medical library of psychoanalyst and bibliophile, Haskell F. Norman, and with his book-plate on front paste-down. With eight folding tables. Modern quarter blue morocco over blue marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, rubbing to extremities, light soiling on front board; all edges untrimmed; text largely unopened; scattered light soiling to text. Grinstein 10376; Grinstein, Freud Bibliography 27; Norman F14 (this copy); Ashwal, Founders in Child Neurology pp. 243-252

The Haskell F. Norman copy of the first edition of Freud's work on cerebral palsy.

Freud's writing on cerebral palsy spanned ten years, beginning in 1889. This work, one of his best known from the period, is an extensive study of the available literature and case reports on the disorder, with Freud being the “first to focus on the occurrence of hemiatrophy on the affected paralyzed side and also helped establish the choreoathetotic form of cerebral palsy as a distinct subtype of this disorder” (Ashwal, p. 247). Freud wrote two more works on the disorder, and in 1897 together with this work, consolidated all three into his Die Infantile Cerebrallahmung, considered one of the most important works on cerebral palsy.