Plusieurs publications sur l'histoire de la psychiatrie et des pathologies citent et commentent les contributions de LV Marcé. Entre autre récemment celle sur "Toxicité neuropsychiatrique de l'absinthe. Historique, données actuelles" (Neuropsychiatic Toxicity of Absinthe. History, Current Data) en français par J-P Luauté, O Saladini, J Benyaya, Annales Médicopsychologiques 163 (2005) 497-501.
D'autres historiens se sont intéressés à la vie de LV Marcé. Baldessarini (Harvard Medical School, Massachusett, USA) s'est interrogé sur les raisons du décès de LV Marcé, à seulement 36 ans. Gad Freudenthal (CNRS, Villejuif) a cherché et trouvé différents documents en particulier à la Bibliothèque Nationale : l'éloge posthume à LV Marcé prononcé par J-V Laborde le 10 février 1865 lors de la séance solennelle de la Société Anatomique.
Cet éloge donne les raisons du décès de LV Marcé : " Emporté par le courant irrésistible d'une prodigieuse activité intellectuelle, il s'y est abandonné avec cet oubli de soi et cette méconnaissance de ses forces réelles qui caractérisent l'amour désintéressé de la science. Comme ces vives lumières qui brillent d'un trop rapide éclat, il s'est consumé avant l'heure; victime de son dévouement à la science, il est mort pour elle et par elle".
Pour en savoir plus : http://psychiatrie.histoire.free.fr/pers/bio/marce.htm
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For english speaking visitors
1) About naming the Society after LV Marcé
Channi Kumar was offered, the original book by LV Marcé on "Traité de la folie des femmes enceintes des nouvelles accouchées et des nourrices", by his wife whose mother tong was French. He was very impressed by this pioneer book and then suggested to call the Society under the name of LV Marcé.
References:
Channi Kumar's Contribution to Perinatal Psychiatry. A personal tribute from France. Glangeaud-Freudenthal N MC Psychological Medicine, 2002, 32, 559-561
Channi Kumar and the History of the Marcé Society. Glangeaud-Freudenthal N MC Archives of Women’s Mental Health 2003, 6/sup2, 79-82
2) about LV Marcé's death
During several years JP Luauté was very systematically inquiring at places where LV Marcé was working or stay and with his family and read most documents that his contemporary colleagues or his family have left.
The very strange death of LV Marcé is described and discussed in a book by two well known French psychiatrists (not historian) JP Luauté and Th Lemperière published historical paper.
References of the book « La vie et l'œuvre pionnière de Louis-Victor Marcé » by Jean-Pierre Luauté and Thérèse Lempérière (éditions Glyphe Paris) and in of their 2012 published paper; Death of an alienist. Louis-Victor Marcé’s final year. Jean-Pierre Luauté, Thérèse Lempérière, Pascal Arnaud. Histoire des sciences médicales Tome XLVI - Number 4 - 2012 pages 113-124
English Abstract (Paper in French)
"The cause of death, at barely the age of 37, of Louis-Victor Marcé (1828-1864), one of the most innovative alienists of the 19th century, was concealed by his contemporaries and colleagues. It has recently been discovered (T. Lempérière, J-P Luauté, J. Garrabé 2010) that he committed suicide. But the circumstances and reasons behind his act remained unknown.
Information has surfaced about his family, the events of the last year of his life and, lately, an unprecedented correspondence from his father-in-law, the chemist and academician Jules Pelouze describing Marcé's condition during the last month of his life. All of these point towards a diagnosis of melancholy, for which none of the appropriate measures were taken, probably as a result of the ailing Marcé's social situation."
Pour en savoir plus sur Louis Victor Marcé vous pouvez consulter les articles / liens suivants :
- Trede K, Baldessarini RJ, Viguera AC, Bottero A, Treatise on insanity in pregnant, postpartum, and lactating women (1858) by Louis-Victor Marcé: a commentary. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2009;17(2):157-65. doi: 10.1080/10673220902891802. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19373623
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Victor_Marcé
Autres publications en Anglais par ou concernant LV Marcé dans d'autres domaines
- Marce L: On a form of hypochondriacal delirium occurring consecutive to dyspepsia and characterized by refusal of food. J Psychol Med Ment Pathol 1860; 13:264–266
- Silverman JA, Psychol Med. 1989 Nov;19(4):833-5.Louis-Victor Marcé, 1828-1864: anorexia nervosa's forgotten man.
- Editorial mentionnant LV Marcé: Am J Psychiatry 1999;156:1673-1675. Eating Disorders: Defining the Phenotype and Reinventing the Treatment
- Dr. Halmi, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Cornell Medical Center–Westchester Division, 21 Bloomingdale Rd., White Plains, NY 10605; kah29@cornell.edu (e-mail).