‎PINEL (P.)‎
‎Nosographie philosophique ou la méthode de l'analyse appliquée à la médecine --- UNE EDITION ORIGINALE INCONNUE DES BIBLIOGRAPHES ---- AN UNKNOW ORIGINAL EDITION -- 2 VOLUMES (complete set)‎

‎P., RICHARD, CAILLE ET RAVIER, An VII (1798), 2 volumes in 8 reliés en demi-basane marron, dos orné de fers à froid et de filets dorés (reliures de l'époque), (quelques rousseurs, mouillures aux deux derniers feuillets des tomes 1 & 2, petits manques de papier d'origine dans les marges de quelques feuillets, marge extérieure du dernier feuillet du tome 1 habilement renforcée, 1 mors légèrement fendu), T.1 : (2), 39pp., 307pp., T.2 : (2), 403pp.‎

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‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE PUBLIEE PAR RICHARD, CAILLE & RAVIER EN 1798 (AN VII) INCONNUE DES BIBLIOGRAPHES, CES DERNIERS NE FAISANT MENTION QUE DE L'EDITION PUBLIEE PAR MARADAN LA MEME ANNEE ---- SUR LA PAGE DE TITRE FIGURE LA MENTION IMPRIMEE SUIVANTE : "UN DES OUVRAGES PROCLAME PAR LE DIRECTOIRE EXECUTIF, SUR LE RAPPORT DE L'INSTITUT NATIONAL, A LA FETE DU PREMIER VENDEMIAIRE DE L'AN VII" ---- EX-LIBRIS PRIAL contrecollé au verso des faux-titres ---- A MASTER OF INTERNAL MEDICINE". (DSB)---- "Pinel's contemporaries regarded him as a master of internal medicine, a reputation based upon the authoritative classification of diseases that he set out in his Nosographie philosophique... Pinel's nosological work should be viewed in the context of the great eighteenth-century concern with classification. He was aware of the difficulties that his predecessors had faced, but he approached his task cheerfully, secure in his belief that a disease was an indivisible whole from its commencement to its conclusion, a regular ensemble of characteristic symptoms . Since these symptoms could be observed and analyzed, a classification of disease was possible. Pinel thus divided diseases into fives classes : fevers, phlegmasias, hemorrhages, neuroses and diseases caused by organic lesions...He classified phelgmasias by the structure of the affected membranes (or tissues)... Among the fourth classe, neuroses, Pinel included not only psychiatric illnesses, but also diseases of the sense organs, spasmodic visceral disorders and dysfunctions of the genital organs. He composed the Nosographie as a textbook... In his Traité des membranes of 1800, Bichat acknowledged the influence of Pinel's book on his own work". (DSB X pp. 611/614) ---- Zilboorg - Ellenberger - Hunter & Maalpine pp. 602/610 - MacHenry - Haymaker**4172/ARM2D‎