Author: ESQUIROL, (J.E.D.)
Title: Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapport médical, hygiénique et médico-legal.
Description: Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1838. Sm 4to. & 8vo. In 3 vols. 2 textvols. and 1 atlas volume w. 27 engr. pls. [of which 1 fold.) [engr. by 'Ambroise Tardieu']. Contemp. half red polished clf., over marbled brds., spines, edges of covers rubb., corners bumped/rubb. Atlas volume in 19th c. half cloth over marbled brds. [...]. (VII, 393; VI, 380 pp.). (IV pp.). (The atlasvolume all plates w. 3 or 4 small pinhole wormholes.). First edition. Rare. Hirsch vol. II, pp. 437-439: Bayle & Thill. II, 882/3: Semelaigne I, 124/40: Wellcome II, 531: Waller 2817: G&M 4798:"...Esquirol regarded general paralysis as a complication of various forms of mental disorder." H.of H. 766:"...Esquirol...sought to classify and describe the various kinds of insanity he encountered in his practise. E. coined the term 'monomania', a concept which was anticipated the modern view on schizophrenia, and he was the first to distinguish hallucination from illusion.": Zilboorg & McHenry 390: "Ësquirol was one of the first, if not the first, to apply statistical methods to his clinical studies". Hunter & Mcalpine 731/8: (This work) "presented the first survey of the whole field of psychiatry in the spirit of unprejudiced observation and detailed description based on an unprecedented number of patients." The work includes sections on hallucination, illusion, melancholia, paresis, monomania, suicide, idiocracy, etc. Moreover much administrative, medico-legal and statistical information: Norman Coll., 724: "... a basic psychiatric text for over half a century." :

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