Jean-Baptiste Pressavin
Jean-Baptiste Pressavin (born March 30, 1734 in Beaujeu , † after 1799) was a French doctor and politician during the French Revolution .
Life
Jean-Baptiste Pressavin came from a noble family. He was the son of Louis Pressavin († 1766) and Catherine de la Font de Pougelon. In Lyon he worked as a general practitioner and surgeon .
Pressavin was a member of the Collège Royal de Chirurgie in Lyon. There he stood on the side of the French Revolution, but saved some convicts from the guillotine . As a member of the then Département Rhône-et-Loire (1790-1793), he was from September 6, 1792 to October 26, 1795 a member of the French National Convention . There he occupied the seats of the mountain party ("Montagne"). This group, close to the Jacobins and Cordeliers , favored the republican constitution against the resistance of the Girondins . Jean-Baptiste Pressavin voted for the execution of King Louis XVI. on January 21, 1793. Maximilien de Robespierre , however, referred to him as an apostate ("infâme") and excluded him from the ranks of the Jacobins. Thus Jean-Baptiste Pressavin went through difficult times from 1793 to 1794. From April 11, 1798 to December 26, 1799, however, he was again representative of the Rhône department in the Council of Five Hundred .
Services
His work on “Vapors” or “Nervous Diseases”, published in 1770, is in the style of the English models - especially by George Cheyne (1671–1743). The foreword of the work contains attacks against the popular coffeehouses that were popular in revolutionary France and against the consumption of hot drinks there, apparently in a somewhat radical effort to return to a moral and natural way of life:
“Most men are rightly criticized for having degenerated by adopting the slackness, habits and tendencies of women; all that is missing is the similarity of the physical constitution. Excessive consumption of hot drinks accelerates metamorphosis and makes the two sexes almost alike, both physically and morally. Woe to the human race if this prejudice extends its rule to the common people: there will then be no more farmers, artisans and soldiers, because soon they will be robbed of the strength and resilience that are required for these professions. "
Klaus Dörner (* 1933) concludes, however, that the seriousness of this moral attitude can hardly be compared with a consultation psychiatry as it was trained in England during the lifetime of George Cheyne and in France rather promoted animal magnetism . The only comparable and thus common sign of the times is the fact that the good society was granted certain passions (“ spleens ”) from which the common people wanted to be protected.
Works
- L'Art de prolonger la vie et de conserver la santé, ou Traité d'hygiène . Cuchet, 1786.
- Traité des maladies vénériennes, où l'on indique un Nouveau Remède . Grabit, 1775
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Baptiste Pressavin: Nouveau Traité des vapeurs ou Traité des maladies des Nerfs . Lyon 1770. google books
- ^ Klaus Dörner : Citizens and Irre . On the social history and sociology of science in psychiatry. (1969) Fischer Taschenbuch, Bücher des Wissens, Frankfurt / M 1975, ISBN 3-436-02101-6 ; P. 132 f. to Stw. "Nervous disease in the public mirror".
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pressavin, Jean-Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor and politician during the French Revolution |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1734 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beaujeu |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1799 |