Pinel Philippe, Medical-philosophical Treatise On Mental Alienation, Second Edition, 1809

1809 Paris, J.Ant. Brosson, 1809. In-8 (133 Verse work on the back cover. Fresh interior, no missing text. SECOND EDITION, completely revised and greatly expanded. It contains two folding tables "Regime of the insane of Salpêtrière" & "General table of the insane of Salpêtrière", and ultimately two out-of-text plates reproducing twelve figures engraved by Maleuvre. “The second edition includes nearly 200 new pages devoted to his institutional experience at Bicêtre, and especially at Salpêtrière.” (Postel & Quetel). “This treatise, the first edition of which [1801] is resolutely placed under the sign of enlightenment and philanthropy, proceeds to the description of a clinical entity, to the codification of the "moral treatment" of madness, to the beginning from the definition and glorification of the asylum institution, to the consecration of psychiatry as a medical discipline in its own right. [...] The treatise, translated into several languages, was, according to the established formula, "a basic book for generations of students"; it became classic and was not without influence on the philosophical and literary movement, notably on Hegel, Maine de Biran and Stendhal.”