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Call Number: |
PH-02921 |
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Collection Name: |
Nouveau traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales: suivi de considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés |
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No. of Items: |
8 photographs in 1 bound volume |
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Span Dates: |
1876 |
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Description: |
Photographically illustrated book by Henri Dagonet (French, 1823-1902) entitled Nouveau traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales: suivi de considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés (Paris: Librairie J. B. Baillière et fils, 1876), containing eight woodburytype plates, by J. Valette (French, active 1870s). Each plate combines several portraits (a total of 33) of patients at Sainte Anne’s asylum in Paris. The images published are meant to represent Dagonet’s classification of nine principle mental disorders that are reflected in the plate titles. |
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Location(s): |
RC 439 D336 1876 HRC-P (2006:0011:0001-0008) |
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