Saturday, May 14, 2011
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
ESQUIRE- originally a military office below knight + bearer of his helmet, shield, and lance, in the tournament or battle. not hereditary. such general use or rather abuse that all distiction or rule of use, quite lost.
5 classes
1- younger sons of peers + their oldest sons.
2- eldest sons of knights + their eldest sons.
3- chiefs of ancient families by prescription.
4- esquires by creation oroffice, as heralds + sergeants of arms, judges, officers of state, naval + military officers, law barristers, etc.
5- esquires who attend the knight of the bath
for legal use.
ESQUIROL, JEAN ETIENNE DOMINIQUE(1772-1840)- a french physician celebrated for his treatment of the insane.b. toulouse. began intending for the church, but compelled by the revolution to suspend that, entered medical service in the army. 1794 became pupil of the military hospital + soon left the army and back to paris. attended lectures of Pinel + chosen by him his assistant + helped him edit the Medicine clinique. obtained his dr diploma in 1805 + in 1811 became a physician of the salpetriere, having time he devoted his chief attention to the insane, + gave lectures in 1817 on this + the revelation he made of abuses he observed in govt. asylums, + induced the govt. to inquire in commsion by his eloquence, untiing energy + devotion, + results of his treatment, contributed greatly to humane treatment of dealing w/ mental maladies. he also designed plans for apartments of lunatic asylums. 1823 inspector general for facilities of medicine. author.
you can order his drawings of the insane online too!
