A practical manual of mental medicine / by E. Régis ; with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball ; authorised translation by H.M. Bannister.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical manual of mental medicine / by E. Régis ; with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball ; authorised translation by H.M. Bannister. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![26 coRsivc improvements in the care of tlie insane in England.* Pinel was not merely a reformer, lie was also a man of science. Bringing together all the clinical and ther- apeutical observations he had made in regard to the insane, lu- published in the year IX, his Traite da la Manie, in Avhich, after recalling the admirable works of ancient writers, he stated his own medico- philosophical views on mental alienation. This little work, of which Cuvier said in the Institute, That it was not only a medical work but also a masterly work on philosophy and even morals, had a great success, and has since remained justly celebrated, Pinel admits and describes four species of insanity, mania., indandiolia., dementia and idioc]i^ in which he confuses, like Willis, idiocy and cretinism, and also dementia with melancholic stu])or. At this time there arose in Germany the school known as the German psj'^chological school which started from the spiritualistic theory of Stahl, accord- ing to which diseases are only the perversion of the *Tliis quasi-simultaneousness of reforms in different countries has, as might have been expected, brought up more or less irriiiitiug disputes as to prioritj' as to tlie claims of Daquin, Cliiaruggi, Tuke, and Pinel. Such controversies tend to diminisii llieir glory, and it seems better to include them all alike in our admiration. In the words of Ilaclv Tuke, the worthy grandson of theEnglisii philanthropist: There are enough evils in the world for tlie few reformers who appear from time to time and there is no need of creating between them a state of hostile rivalry.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963009_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
