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JOSEPH FREDERIC BERARD (1789-1828)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:FREDERIC See also:BERARD (1789-1828)  , See also:French physician and philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Montpellier . Educated at the medical school of that See also:town, he afterwards went to See also:Paris, where he was employed in connexion with the Dictionnaire See also:des sciences medicales . He returned in 1816, and published a See also:work, See also:Doctrine medicale de l'ecole de Montpellier (1819), which is indispensable to a proper understanding of the principles of the Vitalistic school . In 1823 he was called to a See also:chair of See also:medicine at Paris, which he held for three years; he was then nominated See also:professor of See also:hygiene at Montpellier . His See also:health gave way under his labours, and he died in 1828 . His most important See also:book is his Doctrines des rapports du physique et du moral (Paris, 1823) . He held that consciousness or See also:internal See also:perception reveals to us the existence of an immaterial, thinking, feeling and willing subject, the self or soul . Alongside of this there is the vital force, the nutritive See also:Tower, which uses the See also:physical See also:frame as its See also:organ . The soul and the principle of See also:life are in See also:constant reciprocal See also:action, and the first owes to the second, not the formation of its faculties, but the conditions under which they are evolved . He showed himself unable to understand the points of view of those whom he criticized, and yet his own theories, midway between vitalism and See also:animism, are entirely destitute of originality . To the Esprit des doctrines medicates de Montpellier, published posthumously (Paris, 1830), the editor, H . Petiot, prefixed an See also:account cf his life and See also:works; see also See also:Damiron, Phil. en See also:France an XIX° siecle (Paris, 1834) ; C .

J . See also:

Tissot, Anthrapologie genirale (1843) .

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