Although the early 19th-century textbooks on medicine already had chapters on psychiatry, mental illness appeared as a special category of illness only in the mid-1800s.

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The formal recognition and categorization of mental illness as a distinct type of illness began to take shape in the mid-1800s, despite earlier mentions in medical literature.

Although the Early 19th-Century Textbooks on Medicine Already Had Chapters