‘Iconographie de la Salpetriere’

There has been considerable scholarship in the last twenty years on the subject of hysteria and the medical establishment in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. I stumbled over these rather theatrical images in the ICONOGRAPHIE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE DE LA SALPETRIERE (1878)

 

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