The Legacy of Philippe Pinel: An Inquiry into Thought on Mental Alienation

and many clinicians overcame the stultifying effects of the Brunonian theory. Francesco Torrigiani sought post-mortem confirmation of his bedside diagnoses, and Antonio Catellacci wrote a good account of the yellow fever-although Torrigiani accused him of plagiarizing it. Amongst the twenty short biographies is one of Giuseppe Bertini (1722-1845), the first professor of the philosophical history of medicine at Florence in 1805, and who in 1810 at the fall of the Regency was moved to Pisa, when all the other professorial chairs were transferred under the imperial government. JOHN CULE