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FIRST MODERN PSYCHIATRY TEXTBOOK |
| ESQUIROL, Jean Etienne Dominique. MALADIES MENTALES considerees sous les Rapports Medical, Hygienique et Medico-Legal. [Bruxelles] Paris, J.-B. Bailliere, Libraire de l'Academie Royal de Medecine, 1838. Brussels edition (although the place of publication is given as Paris/London). Three octavo volumes, bound as two. viii,393; vi,380pp.; [iv]pp., XXVIIff. Contains 25 plates of psychiatric patients, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, plus a demographic chart and a foldout plan of the insane asylum at Charenton, where Esquirol was director. These well-known plates are linked in the index with certain forms of dementia and retardation. He studied with Pinel and succeeded him as director of the Salpetriere, where he was the first to lecture on psychiatry. Among his advances was the separation of mental disease from mental retardation, recognition of degrees of mental retardation, and use of language acquisition as diagnostic criteria. He coined the term "monomania (later schizophrenia) and was the first to distinguish hallucinations from illusion. His lectures on the abuse of mental patients resulted in a government commission to inspect the hospitals. Internally fine, in half-calf and marbled boards. Hinges externally cracked, with signs of repair; front hinge to Vol. 2 weak; extremities worn. (Morton 4929 "first modern textbook on psychiatry;" Eimas [Brussels edition] "basic text for over 50 years;" Sallander 2817 [Brussels edition]; Haskell Norman catalogue 1061-3.) $1750.00 #78229 |