Séméiotique de l'aliénation mentale

The origins of psychiatric semiology can be traced to the publication of A.-J. Landré-Beauvais “Séméiotique ou traité des signes des maladies” 1809, which was also the year of publication for the second edition of “Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale” by Philippe Pinel, wich included clinical observations of lunatics written up by Pinel in collaboration with A.-J. Landré-Beauvais, his second in command at the Sapétrière.