. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . 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, andGirtanner. Another system which attained influential development,extending even into the present century, was the so-calledRealism^ originated by Pinel (1745-1836). Born in pov-erty, and designed for the Roman Catholic Chu
. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . 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, andGirtanner. Another system which attained influential development,extending even into the present century, was the so-calledRealism^ originated by Pinel (1745-1836). Born in pov-erty, and designed for the Roman Catholic Church, Pineldid not turn his attention to medicine until his thirtieth PINEL S 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, Pinel speedily developed a greatinterest in this class of sufferers. The lot of the insane atthis time was most pitiable : tliey were imprisoned, chained,and treated worse than wild beasts. In his efforts to im- ?r ?Vis> * ^<.
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