Archambault, Jean Baptiste Henri Théophile (1806-1863)

Bibliothèque de médecine mentale. A collection of extracts from the principal writers on mental diseases, ancient and modern: translated into French. The work was undertaken under the direction of Dr. Archambault.

c. 1850

4 volumes 4 vols. folio. 301/2 x 20 cm. Original half-calf binding. Written by several hands, the translators are anonymous.

Purchased 1944.

The author had been a pupil and friend of Esquirol, was appointed Physician to the Bicêtre Hospital in 1840, and was later Médecin en Chef at Charenton.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Signature of 'Dasmesnet[?] 161 rue de Charonne' on the first fly-leaf of Vol. IV.