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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

MOREL, Bénédict Augustin (1809 – 1873)

1809 – 1873

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1857

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Traité des dégénérescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l’espèce humaine. 1 vol. and atlas.

MOREL, Bénédict Augustin (1809 – 1873)

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. He focused…