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See also:JEAN See also:ETIENNE DOMINIQUE See also:ESQUIROL (1772-1840) , See also:French See also:alienist, was See also:born at See also:Toulouse on the 3rd of See also:February 1772 . In 1794 he became a See also:pupil of the military See also:hospital of See also:Narbonne, and subsequently studied in See also:Paris at the Salpetriere under P . See also:Pinel, whose assistant he became . In 181 r he was chosen physician to the Salpetriere, and in 1817 he began a course of lectures on the treatment of the insane, in which he made such revelations of the abuses existing in the lunatic asylums of See also:France that the See also:government appointed a See also:commission ' In practice this means every one receiving such a patent, commission or See also:appointment . to inquire into the subject . See also:Esquirol in this and other ways greatly assisted Pinel's efforts for the introduction of humaner methods . The asylums of See also:Rouen, See also:Nantes and See also:Montpellier were built in accordance with his plans . In 1823 he became inspector-See also:general of the university of Paris for the faculties of See also:medicine, and in 1826 See also:chief physician of the See also:asylum at Charenton . He died at Paris on the 13th of See also:December 1840 . |
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