[Psychology] Freud, Sigm(und)., and Oscar Rie: Klinische Studie uber die halbseitige Cerebrallahmung der Kinder

Freud, Sigm(und)., and Oscar Rie
Klinische Studie uber die halbseitige Cerebrallahmung der Kinder
Vienna: Verlag von Moritz Perles, 1891. First edition. 8vo. (ii), 220, (2) pp. With two folding charts. Presentation copy, inscribed by Freud on front wrapper to Adolf Lorenz: “Herrn Prof. A. Lorenz / hochachtungsvoll / Dr. Freud”. Publisher's limp gray wrappers, printed in black, wear along extremities, spine split, top front corner repaired with sello tape verso; text unopened; wear along some text edges; in quarter black calf solander box. Grinstein 10376; Grinstein, Freud Bibliography 27; Norman F14; Ashwal, Founders in Child Neurology pp. 243-252

Rare presentation copy of Sigmund Freud and Oscar Rie's early work on child neurology, inscribed to Viennese orthopedic surgeon Adolf Lorenz (1854-1946). Lorenz is remembered for his non-invasive surgical techniques and work with bone deformities, which included treatments for congenital hip dislocation in children, club feet, and scoliosis.

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 paralysed 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.