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PINEL, PHILIPPE (1745–1826)

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PINEL, PHILIPPE (1745–1826) , See also:French physician, was See also:born at the See also:chateau of Rascas, See also:Saint-See also:Andre, in the See also:department of See also:Tarn, See also:France, on the loth of See also:April 1745. He studied at See also:Lavaur and afterwards at the university of See also:Toulouse, where he took his See also:doctor's degree in 1773. From See also:Montpellier he removed in 1778 to See also:Paris, engaging there chiefly in See also:literary See also:work connected with his profession. His first publication was a French See also:translation of See also:William See also:Cullen's See also:Nosology (1785); it was followed by an edition of the See also:works of G. Baglivi (1788), and in 1791 he published a Traite medico-philosophique de l'See also:alienation mentale. In 1792 he became See also:head physician of the Bicetre, and two years after-wards he received the corresponding See also:appointment at the Salpetriere, where he began to deliver a course of clinical lectures; these formed the basis of his Nosographie philosophique (1798; 6th ed., 1818), which was further See also:developed in La Medecine clinique (1802). Pinel was made a member of the See also:Institute in 1803, and soon afterwards was appointed See also:professor of See also:pathology in the Ecole de Medecine. His fame rests entirely upon the fact that he was among the first to introduce the humane treatment of the insane. He died at Paris on the 26th of See also:October 1826.

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