De la folie considérée sous le point de vue pathologique, philosophique, historique et judiciaire

By Louis Florentin Calmeil

Subjects: Early works to 1900, Hysteria, Psychiatry, Demonomania, Epidemic Hysteria, Hallucinations and illusions, Delusions, Insanity (Law), History, Pathological Psychology, Mental Disorders

Description: On the subject of lunacy, considered from the pathological, philosophical, historical and judiciary aspects: from the renaissance of the sciences in Europe to the 19th century; description of the great epidemics of delirium, simple or complex, that have afflicted the populations of old and reigned in the monasteries. Report on the condemnations that unknown lunacy has often caused.