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De la folie, considérée dans ses rapports avec les questions medico-judiciares by MARC, Charles Chrétien Henri

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Title
De la folie, considérée dans ses rapports avec les questions medico-judiciares
Author
MARC, Charles Chrétien Henri
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Paris: Bailliere, 1840. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece lithographed portrait. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, green silk markers; a little foxed, otherwise a nice set. First edition, an exhaustive forensic analysis of mental illness. In the first volume, the author, a French psychiatrist who specialized in monomania, presents a historical and contemporary account of the role of insanity in jurisprudence, distinguishing different types of mental illness and their effects. The second volume describes specific manias and their tendency to lead to criminal activity, such as obsession with homicide and suicide, kleptomania, pyromania, and addiction to drugs and alcohol; this text provides the first clear description of kleptomania and pyromania. Marc (1771-1840) was first physician to King Louis-Philippe in 1830 and was elected as a member of the Academy of Medicine. He often acted as an expert witness in criminal court.