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Moreau de Tours is a name that can refer to: * Jacques-Joseph Moreau Jacques-Joseph Moreau (3 June 1804 – 26 June 1884), nicknamed "Moreau de Tours", was a French psychiatrist and member of the Club des Hashischins. Moreau was the first physician to do systematic work on drugs' effects on the central nervo ..., psychiatrist known for his works on haschish (cannabis resin) * Georges Moreau de Tours, painter * Paul Moreau de Tours, psychiatrist known for his works on suicide {{disambiguation ...
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Jacques-Joseph Moreau
Jacques-Joseph Moreau (3 June 1804 – 26 June 1884), nicknamed "Moreau de Tours", was a French psychiatrist and member of the Club des Hashischins. Moreau was the first physician to do systematic work on drugs' effects on the central nervous system, and to catalogue, analyze, and record his observations. Works After a long trip (1836–1840) in the Orient, he discovered the effect of hashish. He studied it in order to understand the relation between madness and dreams, which are similar deliriums, according to Moreau. He was the author of the 184''Du Hachisch et de l'aliénation mentale'' later translated into English and published as ''Hashish and Mental Illness''. He was the first doctor to publish a work about a drug and its effect on the central nervous system.Hans Bangen: ''Geschichte der medikamentösen Therapie der Schizophrenie.'' Berlin 1992, Page 22. "In an era which finally viewed the human psyche in a natural humanist terms rather than as the uncontrollable s ...
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Georges Moreau De Tours
Georges Moreau de Tours (4 April 1848, Ivry-sur-Seine - 12 January 1901, Bois-le-Roi) was a French history painter and illustrator. Biography His father was the psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph Moreau, who first suggested hemp as a treatment of mental illness. His brother, Paul Moreau de Tours, also became a psychiatrist and criminologist. In 1865 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with Alexandre Cabanel.Short biography and photograph
from ''Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs...'', Sociétés de Beaux-Arts, (1897) @ Open Library
He was a regular exhibitor at the from that time until 1896. In addition to his canvas paintings, he produced th ...
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