Digital Collections, National Library of Medicine (IMAGE)

Queen Mary University of London

Digital Collections, National Library of Medicine

Caption

Pinel stands in the courtyard as a woman patient is freed from her chains; other women patients are chained to wooden posts attached to a building.

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National Library of Medicine

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