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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![and organization of numerous asylums, of which he liimself flri'w u]) tlie phms, he improved more and more the condition of the insane; and finally prepared the way, by his travels and writings, for the move- ment that ended in the famous law of 1838, that has l;een of so great service, and for which Falret, Sr. and Fcrrus worked actively. As a saoauf, Esquirol left tlie domain of [)ure s))eculation to devote himself to observation and clinical work; he drew U}) admirable tables of the principal forms of insanity, to which he added monomania, and finally suspected the existence of general paralysis. As a feacher he formed and directed a magnificent constellation of students, so numei-ous and brilliant that discoveries accumulated, and mental medi- cine has never made so great a progress within so short a time. At Charenton, Bayle, Delaye, Georget, Foville, Sr. and the venerable Calmeil discovered and described the symptoms and lesions of general ]taralysis. At the Salpetriere Trelat described reasoning mania; Felix Voisin made a profound study of idiocy; Falret, Sr., combated the doctrine of moiuj- mania, sent out new general ideas ou mental diseases, and, teacher in his turn, left behind him pupils like Morel (the illustrious author of the memoirs on degen- erations, hereditary insanity, the etiological classifi- cation, and the introducer into France of the system](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963009_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
