Traité des dégénérescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l'espèce humaine et des causes qui produisent ces variétés maladives
Subtitle: atlas de xii planches
By: par B.A. Morel
Contributors: Walter E. Fernald State School. Howe Library; Thorelle J. J.?; Léveillé; Baillarger; Hanson, David A.; Becquet frères; Baillière, J.B.
Series: David A. Hanson collection of the history of photomechanical printing
Publisher: J.B. Baillière
Published: 1857
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Cretinism; Mental illness; Genetic aspects; Psychiatry; Early works to 1900; Degeneration
Notes: Donated by the Howe Library of the Walter E. Fernald Development Center, Waltham, Massachussets.

"Plates are lithographs of striking portraits of inmates of the mental institutions, mostly from art but plates xi and xii are hand copied lithographs from photographs of people who suffer from cretinism and other severe mental problems."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 18.

"Les planches XI and XII reproduisent des photographies appartenant à M. Baillarger médecin de l'hospice de la Salpêtière."--Atlas, p. 21.

Plates are by Léveillé, lith., Becquet frères, and photographs are by Mr. Baillarger.

Includes bibliographical references.