Author: VOISIN, F.,
Title: De l 'homme animal.
Description: Paris, Béchet jne. & Labé, 1839. W. 1 lithogr. pl. 19th c. green hlf. clf., spine a few rubbed patches. Marbled brds. (new endpapers.). (VIII, 496, 7 ('Observations communiquées à l 'Academie Royale du Médecine, dans sa séance du 3-VII-1838) pp.). (Some foxing.). (Inscription in ink by Voisin on half title.). Hirsch V, 794 : Zilboorg & Henry, 480 : Voisin states that man, as animal, is product of nature, as moral and intellectual being, he is a product of culture. : Interesting work of this pre-Freudian psychiatrist, one of his books which made him famous. Author's presentation copy to Moreau (De Tours) friend and student of Esquirol with whom he travelled extensively abroad (Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor) studying a.o. the effects of hashish. (See Semelaigne, vol. I, 294/301).

Keywords: psychiatry medicine freudiana W35B