PINEL Philippe La médecine clinique rendue plus précise et plus exacte par l’application de l’analyse, ou Recueil et résultat d’observations sur les maladies aigües, faites à la Salpêtrière.

Not in Waller or Wellcome.

First edition.

“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 patient with specially selected physicians to treat them. He devoted the rest of his life to psychiatry and treatment of the insane” (Heirs of Hippocrates, 1070: Traité 1801).

This is Pinel’s first specific work on the treatment of the insane after his more general Traité médico-philosophique sur l’aliénation mentale published the previous year.

Fine copy.