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* 114. PINEL (Philippe). Medical-philosophical treatise on i - Lot 114
* 114. PINEL (Philippe). Medical-philosophical treatise on insanity or mania. Paris, Richard, Caille et Ravier, An IX (1801). In-8, 318 p. and 2 pl. and 1 table repl. Original edition with two plates showing the faces of insane persons. Philippe Pinel was a renowned physician as an alienist, and is considered to have been a precursor of psychiatry.
He was responsible for the first classification of mental illnesses. He introduced the notion of moral treatment which prefigures our modern psychotherapies.
Bits a little split, other minor defects.
(Garrison and Morton, 4922)
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