[Philippe Pinel and secret remedies].

At the beginning of the 19th century, every medical discovery had to be examined by the School of Medicine in Paris according to the regulation of the 'secret medicines'. The members of the commission made the analysis of the formula or the suggested method and reported their conclusion before an assembly of professors. 1070 reports were proposed between 1795 and 1821 but about forty Pinel's reports remain unknown.

[ The hospitalization of Jews in mental hospitals under Vichy in the department of the Seine].

The author presents the state of his research about a question not very studied till now in a French départment whose specificities have to be considered. The studying of some fifty medical records and some unpublished documents allows to point out how people persecuted by racial laws have been set in psychiatric hospitals and protected. As for their goods it seems that the system intending to protect psychiatric in-patients during their stay at the hospital has been turned away and used to despoil the patents "claimed or alleged Jews".

[Death by starvation in French psychiatric hospitals during the occupation].

The author reports the tragic event which happened in the psychiatric hospitals where several thousands patients died by starvation during the occupation. He treats with a judicial inquiry in the wake of the death of fifteen patients in the psychiatric hospital of Toulouse.