Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1070

PHILIPPE PINEL (1745-1826) Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale; ou la manie. Richard, Caille et Ravier 1801 lvi, 318 pp., 2 plates, fold. table. 19.7 cm.

Pinel, a Paris physician appointed as physician to a notorious mental hospital, found many of the patients in chains, some having been so for many years. Shocked by the conditions he uncovered, he insisted on humane treatment of the patients with specially selected physicians to treat them. He devoted the rest of his life to psychiatry and treatment of the insane. This classic book located the origin of mental disease in pathological changes in the brain and gave great impetus to the humanitarian treatment of the insane.

Cited references: Cushing P286; Garrison-Morton 4922; Waller 7456

Gift of John Martin, M.D.