. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. stinguished himself as an adherent. In Spain andFrance it found little place; but in Italy, and later in Ger-many, it secured a numerous and important following,which numbered, among others, Scarpa, Massini, andGivtannev. Another system which attained influential development,extending even into the present century, was the so-calledRealism, originated by Pinel (17-45-1836). Born in pov-erty, and designed for the Roman Catholic Church, Pineldid not turn his attention to medicine until
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. stinguished himself as an adherent. In Spain andFrance it found little place; but in Italy, and later in Ger-many, it secured a numerous and important following,which numbered, among others, Scarpa, Massini, andGivtannev. Another system which attained influential development,extending even into the present century, was the so-calledRealism, originated by Pinel (17-45-1836). Born in pov-erty, and designed for the Roman Catholic Church, Pineldid not turn his attention to medicine until his thirtieth PINELS LABORS AMONG THE INSANE. 207 year, but on completing- his studies he rapidly rose topositions of importance. Led to the investigation ofmental diseases by the fate of one of his particular friends,who had become insane, escaped into the forest, and wasthere devoured by wolves, Pin el speedily developed a greatinterest in this class of sufferers. The lot of the insane atthis time was most pitiable : they were imprisoned, chained,and treated worse than wild beasts. In his efforts to im-. FlG. 3(1.—Pir. PlNEL.(From an old lithograph nf the eighteenth century.) prove their lot, Pinel acquired the title of conservative andaristocrat, either of which was almost equivalent to a death-sentence. Unterrified, however, he appeared before theParis Council and urged the adoption of reformatorymeasures, replying to the challenges of skeptical and self-regardful opponents by liberating a number of insane pa-tients who were in his charge. The courage thus exhibitedreceives appreciation in our time, if never before. Not the 208 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. least of PinePs services was the substitution of analyticalfor synthetical methods; he also sought to determine dis-ease by a diagnosis carefully constructed from symptoms,but unfortunately he made pathology and anatomy sub-ordinate factors. He was a pupil of Barthez, but heplaced his preceptors vitalism far in the backgrou
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