Traite medico-philosophique sur l'alienation mentale
By: par Ph. Pinel
Contributors: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: J.A. Brosson
Published: 1809
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Psychiatry
Notes: Refr: Eimas 1071; Norman 1702 Desc: With a half-title Copy: (Q 3.51) Lacks the half-title Bndg: (Q 3.51) Bound 2nd with - Fodere, Essai Medico-legal Note: "On the 24th May 1798, in one of the most dramatic moments in the history of medicine, Pinel had the manacles and chains removed from 49 of his male psychiatric patients at Bicetre, a hospital near Paris" (Lilly). Pinel, a Paris physician, was so shocked by the conditions he had found at Bicetre, that he devoted the rest of his life to psychiatry and the treatment of the insane. Among one of the first to insist on the humane treatment of the insane, Pinel dispensed with chains and placed his patients in the care of specially selected physicians. The above work, first published in 1801, located the origin of mental disease in pathological changes in the brain rather than in demonic possession or moral perversity, and outlined a humane programme for the care and rehabilitation of the mentally ill. In this the second edition Pinel added much new material and reported on the results of his new and more humane methods of treatment. Dplt: Duplicate copy.

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