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The Medical and Franklin Library of Dr. William von Valtier, Part II
Lot 1102¤

PINEL, PHILLIPE. 1745-1826.
A Treatise on Insanity. Sheffield: W. Todd for Cadell and Davies, 1806.

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PINEL, PHILLIPE. 1745-1826.

A Treatise on Insanity. Sheffield: W. Todd for Cadell and Davies, 1806.
8vo (210 x 130 mm). 2 engraved plates, folding letterpress table. 20th-century quarter calf and marbled boards. Some warping of leaves, foxing throughout, heavy at times, library stamp on title.
Provenance: Middlesex Hospital library (stamp on title); William Gordon Lennox, American neurologist, 1884-1960 (bookplate on front paste-down).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. "Pinel was among the first to treat the insane humanely; he dispensed with chains and placed his patients under the care of specially selected physicians" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 4922).

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