‎TISSOT (Clément Joseph)‎
‎De l'influence des passions de l'âme dans les maladies et des moyens d'en corriger les mauvais effets. ouvrage approuvé par l'Académie de chirurgie de Paris en 1786 -- EDITION ORIGINALE‎

‎Besançon, Briot, An III (1794), un volume in 8 relié en demi-basane, dos orné de filets dorés (reliure de l'époque), (coiffe émoussée, un mors légèrement fendu), (1), 298pp.‎

Reference : 5050

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- "The inner principles underlying the vitalist theory were soon forgotten ; the interest in the emotional aspects of physical or mental disease, however, could not disappear, for the role of emotions in the course of disease became more and more evident. Clément Joseph TISSOT (1750-1826), for instance, in response to an inquiry by the Académie de chirurgie of Paris, wrote De l'infuence des passions de l'âme dans les maladies et des moyens d'en corriger les mauvais effets... Tissot believed that tickling to evoke the emotion of cheerfulness and laughter in children suffering from rickets had a curative effect. He also thought that the playing of music would produce curative emotions in patients discouraged and therefore impeded by low spirits in the process of recovery...". (Zilboorg pp. 285/286)**5050/G2‎