TY  - JOUR
T1  - Bedlam in sanity: A return to the anatomy of melancholy on a tour conducted by lawrence babb
AU  - Bean WB
Y1  - 1963/02/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1963.03620260005002
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 145
EP  - 148
VL  - 111
IS  - 2
N2  - Strangely enough one of the most popular books of all time is Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. Not only is this book in its way an extraordinarily perceptive document in the often obscure realm of psychiatry, but it is full of outlandish and out-of-the-way erudition, a source book of much valid information and some misinformation. It happened to be brought forward in the spacious time when people with much leisure could spend hours rambling along with Burton wandering in his meandering display of vast quantities of learning. It is whimsical, charming, eccentric, full of examples of Burton's obsessions and compulsions. Possibly because it is disorganized and does not always clearly separate wheat from chaff timeless truth is mixed in with a great deal of pure balderdash. Now it has fallen from favor; or maybe we have no such repose of spirit and free time as it requires. Few physicians I
SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1963.03620260005002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1963.03620260005002
ER  -