Lot n° 191
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PINEL (Philippe). - Lot 191
PINEL (Philippe).
Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale, ou la manie. Paris, Richard, Caille et Ravier, An IX. In-8, havane half calf, smooth spine decorated (19th century binding).
Garrison-Morton, n°4922. - Heirs of Hippocrates, n°1990.
First edition of the founding text of modern psychiatry.
Decorated with a folding table and 2 engraved plates.
This treatise, whose first edition was resolutely placed under the sign of enlightenment and philanthropy, describes a clinical entity, codifies the "moral treatment" of madness, begins to define and glorify the asyline institution, and consecrates psychiatry as a medical discipline in its own right (En français dans le texte, n°203).
Small, unobtrusive hole on title page. A few pale halos and light freckling.
Bound after : BROUSSAIS. Le Choléra-morbus épidémique, observé et traité selon la méthode physiologique. Paris, Mademoiselle Delaunay, 1832.
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