Garrison-Morton, 4933.1; Heirs of Hippocrates, 1721 (incomplete copy missing the atlas) ; Semelaigne I, 342-351.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition.<\/span><\/p>\n A rebellious and independent spirit, Morel was an enemy of routine from 1856 onwards, “ne songe plus qu’\u00e0 la d\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rescence, passe son temps \u00e0 circuler de c\u00f4t\u00e9 et d’autre pour \u00e9tudier les types et v\u00e9rifier les lois qu’il a formul\u00e9es”.<\/p>\n For him, all degenerates present, despite their differences, the same impossibility “de propager dans des conditions normales la grande et unique famille du genre humain”.The insane confined in asylums are, in almost all cases, degenerates, and the degeneration may be hereditary or acquired.<\/p>\n He enjoyed an immense reputation, and in 1864 he was called to Munich to work with the “Prince h\u00e9ritier de Bavi\u00e8re… et son regard l’avait frapp\u00e9. Tandis que le roi Louis Ier s’\u00e9criait en admirant son fils: “Ce sont les yeux passionn\u00e9s d’Adonis”, Morel simply said : “Ce sont des yeux qui annoncent la folie”. (Semelaigne, Les Pionniers de la psychiatrie fran\u00e7aise, T. I, p. 342).<\/p>\n “Morel was instrumental in developing the psychiatric theory of degeneration and fully reports his findings in the present work. It was his belief that mental degeneration was caused by abnormal deviations, such as hereditary defects, which ultimately resulted in extinction. The chief caus of degeneration was heredity but other causes included social conditions, congenital defects, immorality, pathological behavior, epidemic diseases, and drug abuse or addiction” (Heirs). “The main support for the theory of mental illness as regression which dominated psychiatric practice for several decades. Morel described and illustrated the nature, causes, and signs of human degeneration… The atlas reproduces by lithography some of the earliest photogra phs of the insane” (Garrison-Morton).<\/p>\n Wear to the atlas volume, plate IV with abrasion in the white without affecting the image, title with hole in the white.<\/p>\n A working copy.<\/p>\n Provenance : A.C. Pacheco e Silva (book plate and signature).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 volume of text 8vo (209 x 126 mm) and 1 folio atlas (305 x 207 mm) XIX, 700 pp. for the text, 23 pp. and 12 lithographed plates for the atlas. Half green sheep (text) and half black shagreen (atlas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":73300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[548],"product_tag":[1271,1312,1205],"class_list":{"0":"post-73309","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-medicine","7":"product_tag-medicine","8":"product_tag-neurology","9":"product_tag-photography","10":"pa_auteur-morel-benedicte-auguste-2","11":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Auguste MOREL","chapeau":"One of the first medical books illustrated from photographs","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Londres, New-York, J.-B. Bailli\u00e8re, 1857","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n