{"id":2930,"date":"2014-05-21T19:55:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2014-05-21T19:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:55:46","slug":"notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-may-2014-jean-etienne-dominique-esquirol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/05\/21\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-may-2014-jean-etienne-dominique-esquirol\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, May 2014: Jean \u00c9tienne Dominique Esquirol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Jean \u00c9tienne Dominique Esquirol (1772-1840)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Des maladies mentales consid\u00e9r\u00e9es sous les rapports m\u00e9dical, hygi\u00e9nique et m\u00e9dicol\u00e9gal. 2 vols. Brussels\u00a0: J.B. Tircher, 1838.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 225px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kingscollections.org\/_assets\/components\/archiosgallery\/connector.php?action=web\/phpthumb&amp;w=225&amp;zc=C&amp;far=C&amp;q=85&amp;src=http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2014\/05\/21\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-may-2014-jean-etienne-dominique-esquirol\/%2Fmedia%2Fexh_spc%2Fimages%2F006971%2Fpatient1.jpg%22 alt=\"An inmate of Bethlem Hospital in 1814, who has been identified as William Norris, from Jean-\u00c9tienne Dominique Esquirol's Des maladies mentales. Brussels: Libraire m\u00e9dicale et scientifique de JB Tircher, 1838 [Institute of Psychiatry Historical Collection h\/Esq]\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Esquirol&#8217;s drawing of an inmate of Bethlem Hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As Pinel&#8217;s most outstanding pupil, Esquirol so closely followed his teacher&#8217;s works that the contributions of the two men are sometimes confused. Like Pinel, Esquirol did not attempt to analyze mental illness from a philosophical standpoint, but sought to classify and describe the various kinds of insanity he encountered in his practice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Esquirol coined the term monomania, a concept which anticipated the modern view of schizophrenia, and he was the first to distinguish hallucination from illusion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">While at S\u00e2lpetri\u00e8re, where he succeeded Pinel as chief physician, Esquirol introduced formal instruction in psychiatry and gained support for Pinel&#8217;s humanitarian reform movements by lecturing throughout Europe. <em>Des maladies mentales<\/em>, the work for which he is best known, served as a basic text in psychiatry for over fifty years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">To learn more, visit http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Text via Donna Hirst, Curator of Rare Books for the John Martin Rare Book Room at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Image via kingscollections.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean &Eacute;tienne Dominique Esquirol (1772-1840) Des maladies mentales consid&eacute;r&eacute;es sous les rapports m&eacute;dical, hygi&eacute;nique et m&eacute;dicol&eacute;gal. 2 vols. Brussels&nbsp;: J.B. Tircher, 1838. Esquirol&rsquo;s drawing of an inmate of Bethlem Hospital. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}