Between doctrine and clinical practice: nosography and semiology in the work of Jean-Etienne-Dominique Esquirol (1772-1840).
This paper makes a fresh analysis of the work of the French alienist J. E. D. Esquirol. In addition to a critical study of his classification of mental diseases, it analyses his main contributions to semiology: the difference between hallucinations and illusions, etc., and it also places the psychiatric clinic into the context of the so-called anatomoclinical mentality.
Huertas
Rafael
R
Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Spain. huertas@ih.csic.es
D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*