April 20th
- French physician who pioneered in the humane treatment of the mentally ill.
- In 1792 he became the chief physician at the Paris asylum for men, Bicêtre, and made his first bold reform by unchaining patients, many of whom had been restrained for 30 to 40 years.
- He did the same for the female inmates of Salpêtrière when he became the director there in 1794.
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