Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière.

Service de M. Charcot.

Bourneville, Désiré Magloire, 1840-1909 ;
Regnard, Paul, 1850-1927.

Paris : Aux bureaux du Progrès Médical ; V. A. Delahaye & Cie, 1875-80.

Description : 4 portfolio volumes, issued in parts, 24.2 x 19 cm. ;

   • Album of clinical portraits (1875) — 8 p., 88 pl. ;
   • [Vol. I] (1877) — 12 livraisons in 11 parts ; 165 p., 40 pl. (loosely inserted as issued) ;
   • [Vol. II] (1878) — 12 livraisons in 12 parts ; 234 p., 39 pl. (loosely inserted as issued) ;
   • [Vol. III] (1879-80) — unbound signatures as issued ; 261 p., 40 pl. (loosely inserted as issued) ;

Photographs :

   • Album — albumen title-vignette ; 88 albumens mounted on cards.
   • Vol. I — albumen title-vignette ; 40 albumens mounted on cards.
   • Vol. II — collotype title-vignette ; 39 collotypes mounted on cards.
   • Vol. III — collotype title-vignette ; 40 collotypes mounted on cards.


Photographer : Paul Regnard and others.

Subject : Neurological Disorders — Hystero-epilepsy.

Notes :

• Norman 291 (sold at Christie's on Oct. 29, 1998 ; Freud-8976, lot 948).
• Norman set did not include the 1875 album of clinical portraits.
• Text signatures and pages issued loose in printed blue paper wrappers.
• Paul Regnard's photographs appear in the album and first volume.
• Bourneville was Charcot's assistant from 1870 to 1879.
• Eponym: Bourneville's syndrome. Adenoma sebaceum, tuberous sclerosis, mental deficiency, and convulsions, without the subungual and periungual warty fibromas of Bourneville-Pringle.
• Eponym: Bourneville-Pringle disease. A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney.
• GM 4558.1 ; Crabtree 982.
• Index Medicus: 10203051330 ; 10609641180 ; 10607651880 ; 10907641100.

A photographic atlas devoted to cases of hysteria and epilepsy, with case histories;   the third volume includes discussion of hypnotism, somnambulism and magnetism. — Garrison & Morton.