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FALRET, Jules (1824-1902). De l'tat mental des pileptiques. Paris: P. Asselin, 1860.
8o (213 x 137 mm). Bound with 14 other papers by Falret in contemporary blue half calf and marbled boards, gilt spine (some scuffing).
FIRST EDITION. THE AUTHOR'S COPY of this volume with his stamp on front flyleaf. The most important of the other 14 papers are: Des troubles du langage et de la mmoire des mots dans les affections crbrales (aphmie, aphasie, alalie, amnsie verbale), Paris, 1864; Des alins dangereux et des asiles spciaux pour les alins dits criminels, Paris, 1869; and De la consanguinit, Paris, 1865. Falret "was one of the most important psychiatrists of his time. He was especially interested in the mental disorders of epileptics, particularly the prolonged delirium that he called epileptic insanity (folie epileptique)..." (Norman 759).
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FIRST EDITION. THE AUTHOR'S COPY of this volume with his stamp on front flyleaf. The most important of the other 14 papers are: Des troubles du langage et de la mmoire des mots dans les affections crbrales (aphmie, aphasie, alalie, amnsie verbale), Paris, 1864; Des alins dangereux et des asiles spciaux pour les alins dits criminels, Paris, 1869; and De la consanguinit, Paris, 1865. Falret "was one of the most important psychiatrists of his time. He was especially interested in the mental disorders of epileptics, particularly the prolonged delirium that he called epileptic insanity (folie epileptique)..." (Norman 759).