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In all public asylums as well as in prisons and hospitals, the surest, and, perhaps, the only method of securing health, good order, and good manners, is to carry into decided and habitual execution the natural law of bodily labour, so contributive and essential to human happiness.

Philippe Pinel

Every illness has its natural course, with which it behooves the doctor to become acquainted.

Philippe Pinel

It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them.

Philippe Pinel

Philippe Pinel

Philippe Pinel

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Born: April 20, 1745

Died: October 25, 1826 (aged 81)

Bio: Philippe Pinel was a French physician who was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy.

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