Cullen & Pinel - Institutions de médecine & Nosographie - 1786-1798

Two works by Philippe Pinel: his own work and a translation by Cullen Cullen Institutions de médecine-pratique, translated from the fourth & last edition of the English work by Mr. Cullen… Paris, P.J. Duplain / Versailles, André, 1786 vol 1 = First and Second Volumes: xlviii+179+220 pp; vol 2 = Third and Fourth Volumes: 204+224 pp; eumbered contemporary leather bindings (17.5x11.5 cm, heavily worn, water damage, piece missing from the top edge of the front cover); vol 1 first 100 pp small tear in the right upper corner (no text loss); vol 2 first 100 pp water stain along the top edge = translation of ‘First lines of the practice of physic’ (1784) by the Scottish physician William Cullen translated by Philippe Pinel Pinel Nosographie philosophique, ou la méthode de l'analyse appliquée à la médecine. First Volume. Paris: De l’imprimerie de Crapelet / Chez Maradan, an VI [1798] xxxvi+252 pp contemporary leather binding (19.5x12.5 cm; corners dented, small piece missing from the back cover); watermark on the bottom of endpapers and title page; = FIRST edition! & IDEM Second Volume. Paris: Richard, Caille et Ravier, an VII [Sept 1798] (4)+403+(1) pp; contemporary leather binding (20x13 cm, small defect at the top of the spine; wormhole on the front cover); page 81 torn slightly at the outer margin (no text loss); ink note on page 177 at the top; Philippe Pinel is regarded as the ‘father of modern psychiatry’; in Part II a significant chapter on “névroses”!

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