TRAITE' ELEMENTAIRE ET PRATIQUE DES MALADIES MENTALES, suivi de Considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés.

.E.O. First Edition. Un volume in 8vo (13,5x22 cm) di (4)-816 pagine + una grande carta geografica dei manicomi francesi ripiegata in fine + Catalogo dell'editore (48 pagine). Legatura coeva in mezza pelle, dorso a nervi ornato; piatti marmorizzati (qualche usura ai piatti). Ottime condizioni. - Importante prima edizione di questo classico degli studi sulle malattie mentali nell'800. “Dagonet, an eminent but little-remembered figure in nineteenth-century French psychiatry, was a faithful follower of Pinel and Esquirol and the French tradition of meticulous clinical description and classification. Born in 1823, he followed his father into the professions of medicine and psychiatry, obtaining an academic position at Strasbourg in 1853 and publishing the first edition of his textbook in 1862. In 1867 he was awarded the clinical directorship of the new Hospital of St. Anne in Paris, and he remained there until his retirement some 30 years later. . Dagonet was, like many of his contemporaries, a firm believer in physiognomic diagnosis”(American Journal of Psychiatry, 1999)