[Daniel Hack Tuke, physician and expert on mental illness.] Autograph Card Signed ('Hack Tuke') to the Austrian neurologist Professor Heinrich Obersteiner, regarding a work he has sent him for review.

On one side of a small plain card, the other side being addressed, with postmarks, to 'Prof: H: Obersteiner | Wien – Döblin | Austria'. In good condition, lightly aged. Reads: 'I have received your magnum opus über [?] for the Journal of Mental Science for which I thank you and will place it in the hands of a Competent Reviewer'. Tuke had graduated M.D. at Heidelberg in 1853, and had become joint editor of the Journal of Mental Science in 1880. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'. The item is accompanied by a slip of paper on which Hunter writes: 'Given to me by Helmut Heintel | June 1975'.