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Turin - Ospedale de'Pazzarelli (Il Regio Manicomio) (1834 - )

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Location: Via Giulio, Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia

Ospedale de’Pazzarelli, popularly known as ‘the house with the two pines’, was built as a psychiatric hospital by the architect Talucchi, replacing a previous facility for the mentally ill, and opened in 1834 as part of Regio Manicomio. On 13 March of that year it was visited by King Carlo Alberto, as well as by the French psychiatrists Jean-Ettiene-Dominique Esquirol and M. Brière de Boismont.

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Guislain, Joseph (1797 - 1860)

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Guislain's account of his visit to the Ospedale de'Pazzarelli (Il Regio Manicomio), Turin (1838)

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Centro di Documentazione sulla Psichiatria, Biblioteca Medico-Scientifica ed Archivo Storico degli Ospedali Psichiatrico di Torino, Regione Piemonte, http://www.asl5.piemonte.it. [ Details ... ]
Torino Scienza, , http://www.torinoscienza.it. [ Details ... ]

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Prepared by: Peter Lloyd
Created: 7 June 2006
Modified: 8 August 2006

Updated: 7 September 2006
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