title: [When Esquirol wrote to the sub-prefect of Foix "High Pyrenees"].
abstract: Communication about a letter from Esquirol on 18th January 1814 in which he asked to the "sous-prefet de Foix" investigations on this insane and strange behaviour of this "wild-woman" found nude in the landscape of the Pyrénées ariégeoises. Esquirol also riquiered begiven the insane woman skull's who died in jail. So he can compare this one with others skulls he collected and study before from melancholics patients. The most important interest in this letter is showing us how Esquirol was fascinate himself by "l'ensauvagement" (Pinel aud Itard Influence).
authors.affiliation: Centre hospitalier Georges Renon, Service de psychiatrie I, 79021 Niort.
authors.forename: Jean-Yves
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Guiroy
mesh_terms: D015709:Correspondence as Topic / Q000266:history; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history* / Q000473:pathology; D012886:Skull