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Call Number:

PH-02921

Collection Name:

Nouveau traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales: suivi de considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés

Creator:

Dagonet, Henri, 1823-1902

Valette, J., active 1870s

No. of Items:

8 photographs in 1 bound volume

Span Dates:

1876

Description:

Photographically illustrated book by Henri Dagonet (French, 1823-1902) entitled Nouveau traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales: suivi de considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés (Paris: Librairie J. B. Baillière et fils, 1876), containing eight woodburytype plates, by J. Valette (French, active 1870s). Each plate combines several portraits (a total of 33) of patients at Sainte Anne’s asylum in Paris. The images published are meant to represent Dagonet’s classification of nine principle mental disorders that are reflected in the plate titles.

2006:0011:0001 -- Manie;
2006:0011:0002 -- Lypémanie;
2006:0011:0003 -- Stupidité;
2006:0011:0004 -- Mégalomanie;
2006:0011:0005 -- Folie Impulsive;
2006:0011:0006 -- Démence, Paralysie Générale;
2006:0011:0007 -- Imbécillité, Idiotie;
2006:0011:0008 -- Cretinismé.

Accession No(s):

2006:0011:0001-0008; Purchase, 2006

Location(s):

RC 439 D336 1876 HRC-P (2006:0011:0001-0008)
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