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The odd couple: the partnership of J. C. Bucknill and D. H. Tuke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Allan Beveridge*
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On the opening page of Daniel Hack Tuke's 1892 Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, is a statement which reads:

Dedicated to John Charles Bucknill, M.D. Lond. F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Late Lord Chancellors Visitor in Lunacy, First Editor of the ‘Journal of Mental Science’, and an early and strenuous worker in the field of psychological medicine.

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History of Psychiatry
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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