Pinel Phiippe (1 results)

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). First. 2 volumes. Xxxvi, 252; viii, 319 pages. Slim 8vo, older 1/2 mottled calf with marbled boards; pale blue endpapers mottled calf, lightly rubbed and with some worming and discoloration in gutters; hinges cracked but holding). Paris: Chez Maradan, An VI, 1798. First Edition. Overall a very good copy with tiny worm holes affecting only the first few pages on the inner margins). "Although he is properly considered one of the founders of psychiatry, Pinel's contemporaries regarded him as a master of internal medicine, a reputation based upon the authoritative classification of diseases he set out in his Nosographie philosophique, published in 1798. . .Pinel thus divided diseases into five classes--fevers, phlegmasias, hemorrhages, neuroses, and diseases caused by organic lesions" (D.S.B. 10: 612).