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Benjamin Ball (20 April 1833^[1] – 23 February 1893^[2]) was an English-born French psychiatrist, Professor of Mental Medicine in the Paris Faculty.^[vague]

Early life

He was born at Naples, his father being an Englishman and his mother a native of Switzerland. He became a naturalised Frenchman in 1849, and spent the whole of his professional life in Paris.

Medical Career

He studied medicine under Jacques-Joseph Moreau de Tours and Jean-Martin Charcot and was an assistant of Charles Lasègue at the Salpêtrière Hospital. During his internat he was Laureate of the Academy of Medicine (Prix Portal, in collaboration with Charcot). He became doctor of medicine in 1862. In 1877 Benjamin Ball was the first to be appointed to the "Clinical Chair of Mental and Cerebral Diseases" in the Paris Faculty, to the detriment of his rival Valentin Magnan.^[3]

In collaboration with Jules Bernard Luys, he founded in 1881 the journal L'Encéphale.

Written works

Ball is the author of numerous works relating to mental diseases. In 1885, he published a trail-blazing treatrise entitled La morphinomanie, in which he evidenced the toxic effects of cocaine which were not absolutely acknowledged at the time.

title	translation	published
Des Embolies pulmonaires	Pulmonary Embolism	Paris 1862^[4]
Du rhumatisme viscéral	Visceral rheumatism	Paris 1866
La médecine mentale à travers les siècles	Mental medicine through the centuries	Paris 1879
La morphinomanie	On morphinomania	1st edition: Paris 1885^[5]; 2nd edition: Paris 1888^[6]
La folie érotique	On erotic insanity	1st edition: Paris 1888^[7]; 2nd edition: Paris 1893^[8]
Du délire des persécutions, ou Maladie de Lasègue	On persecution deliria	Paris 1890^[9]
Leçons sur les maladies mentales	Lessons on Mental Illnesses	1st ediiton: Paris 1880^[10]; 2nd edition: Paris 1890^[11]

Awards

By decree on 14 July 1880 (declaration: 29 January 1881) Ball was awarded a Knight in France's Legion of Honour.^[1]

Death

Ball suffered an illness for 12 months that prevented him from working as a physician. He died of the "severe mental strain" due to his illness at his Paris residence on 23 February 1893.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Ball, Benjamin - Certificate No 24,607". France’s National Archives - Léonore Database (in French). France. 14 July 1880. p. 1. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2022. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 25 November 2022 suggested (help)
^ ^a ^b "Obituary of Benjamin Ball, M.D." (PDF). British Medical Journal. 1893. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ Bogousslavsky J, ed. (2010). Following Charcot: a Forgotten History of Neurology and Psychiatry. Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience. S Karger Pub. ISBN 978-3-8055-9556-8.
^ Ball, Benjamin (1862). "Des Embolies pulmonaires" [Pulmonary Embolism] (in French). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Paris, France: A. Coccoz. p. 1-147. ISBN 978-2-0195-4421-8. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.
^ Ball, Benjamin. La morphinomanie [On morphinomania] (in French). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Paris, France: Asselin et Houzeau. p. 1-166. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.
^ Ball, Benjamin. La morphinomanie [On morphinomania] (in French). Vol. 1 (2 ed.). Paris, France: E. Lefrançois. p. 1-248. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.
^ Ball, Benjamin (1888). La folie érotique [On erotic insanity] (in French). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Paris, France: J.-B. Baillière. p. 1-158}. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.
^ Ball, Benjamin (1893). La folie érotique [On erotic insanity] (in French). Vol. 1 (2 ed.). Paris, France: A. Coccoz. p. 1-157. ISBN 978-2-3381-0680-7. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.
^ Ball, Benjamin (1890). Du délire des persécutions, ou Maladie de Lasègue [On persecution deliria] (in French). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Paris, France: Asselin & Houzeau. p. 1-109. ISBN 978-2-8512-8073-2. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.
^ Ball, Benjamin (1880). Leçons sur les maladies mentales [Lessons on Mental Illnesses] (in French). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Paris, France: P. Asselin. p. 1-884. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.
^ Ball, Benjamin (1890). Leçons sur les maladies mentales [Lessons on Mental Illnesses] (in French) (2 ed.). Paris, France: Asselin et Houzeau. p. 1-1870. ISBN 978-2-8512-8073-2. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.

External links

Works by or about Benjamin Ball at Internet Archive

[legion_1880-1] "Ball, Benjamin - Certificate No 24,607". France’s National Archives - Léonore Database (in French). France. 14 July 1880. p. 1. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2022. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 25 November 2022 suggested (help)

[bmj_1893'-2] "Obituary of Benjamin Ball, M.D." (PDF). British Medical Journal. 1893. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2022.

[3] Bogousslavsky J, ed. (2010). Following Charcot: a Forgotten History of Neurology and Psychiatry. Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience. S Karger Pub. ISBN 978-3-8055-9556-8.

[4] Ball, Benjamin (1862). "Des Embolies pulmonaires" [Pulmonary Embolism] (in French). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Paris, France: A. Coccoz. p. 1-147. ISBN 978-2-0195-4421-8. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.

[5] Ball, Benjamin. La morphinomanie [On morphinomania] (in French). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Paris, France: Asselin et Houzeau. p. 1-166. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.

[6] Ball, Benjamin. La morphinomanie [On morphinomania] (in French). Vol. 1 (2 ed.). Paris, France: E. Lefrançois. p. 1-248. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.

[7] Ball, Benjamin (1888). La folie érotique [On erotic insanity] (in French). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Paris, France: J.-B. Baillière. p. 1-158}. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.

[8] Ball, Benjamin (1893). La folie érotique [On erotic insanity] (in French). Vol. 1 (2 ed.). Paris, France: A. Coccoz. p. 1-157. ISBN 978-2-3381-0680-7. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.

[9] Ball, Benjamin (1890). Du délire des persécutions, ou Maladie de Lasègue [On persecution deliria] (in French). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Paris, France: Asselin & Houzeau. p. 1-109. ISBN 978-2-8512-8073-2. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.

[10] Ball, Benjamin (1880). Leçons sur les maladies mentales [Lessons on Mental Illnesses] (in French). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Paris, France: P. Asselin. p. 1-884. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.

[11] Ball, Benjamin (1890). Leçons sur les maladies mentales [Lessons on Mental Illnesses] (in French) (2 ed.). Paris, France: Asselin et Houzeau. p. 1-1870. ISBN 978-2-8512-8073-2. Archived from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2002.

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+'''Benjamin Ball''' (20 April 1833<ref name="legion_1880"/> – 23 February 1893<ref name="bmj_1893'/>) was an English-born French [[psychiatrist]], Professor of Mental Medicine in the [[Paris]] Faculty.{{vague|date=November 2016}}
+==Early life==
 He was born at [[Naples]], his father being an Englishman and his mother a native of Switzerland. He became a naturalised Frenchman in 1849,
 and spent the whole of his professional life in Paris.
+==Medical Career==
-He studied medicine under [[Jacques-Joseph Moreau de Tours]] and [[Jean-Martin Charcot]] and was an assistant of [[Charles Lasègue]] at the [[Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital|Salpêtrière Hospital]]. During his ''[[Medical school in France|internat]]'' he was [[Laureate]] of the [[Académie Nationale de Médecine|Academy of Medicine]] (''Prix [[Antoine Portal|Portal]]'', in collaboration with [[Jean-Martin Charcot|Charcot]]). He became [[doctor of medicine]] in 1862.
-In 1877 Benjamin Ball was the first to be appointed to the "Clinical Chair of Mental and Cerebral Diseases" in the Paris Faculty, to the detriment of his rival [[Valentin Magnan]].
+He studied medicine under [[Jacques-Joseph Moreau de Tours]] and [[Jean-Martin Charcot]] and was an assistant of [[Charles Lasègue]] at the [[Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital|Salpêtrière Hospital]]. During his ''[[Medical school in France|internat]]'' he was [[Laureate]] of the [[Académie Nationale de Médecine|Academy of Medicine]] (''Prix [[Antoine Portal|Portal]]'', in collaboration with [[Jean-Martin Charcot|Charcot]]). He became [[doctor of medicine]] in 1862. In 1877 Benjamin Ball was the first to be appointed to the "Clinical Chair of Mental and Cerebral Diseases" in the Paris Faculty, to the detriment of his rival [[Valentin Magnan]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Following Charcot: a Forgotten History of Neurology and Psychiatry |series=Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience |editor= Bogousslavsky J |publisher= S Karger Pub |year= 2010 |isbn= 978-3-8055-9556-8}}</ref>
 In collaboration with [[Jules Bernard Luys]], he founded in 1881 the journal ''L'Encéphale''.
+==Written works==
-Ball  is the author of numerous works relating to [[Mental disorder|mental diseases]] such as ''On erotic insanity'' (''La folie érotique''), and ''On persecution deliria'' (''Du délire des persécutions'', as well as ''Lessons on Mental Illnesses'' (''Leçon sur les maladies mentales''). In 1885, he published a trail-blazing treatrise ''On morphinomania'' (''La morphinomanie''), in which he evidenced the toxic effects of [[cocaine]] which were not absolutely acknowledged  at the time.
+Ball is the author of numerous works relating to [[Mental disorder|mental diseases]]. In 1885, he published a trail-blazing treatrise entitled ''La morphinomanie'', in which he evidenced the toxic effects of [[cocaine]] which were not absolutely acknowledged  at the time.
-==Selected written works==
+{{Static row numbers}}
-*''Des Embolies pulmonaires'' (Paris 1862)
+{| class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers"|
-*''Du rhumatisme viscéral'' (Paris 1866)
+! title
-*''La médecine mentale à travers les siècles'' (Paris 1879)
+! translation
-*''La morphinomanie'' (Paris 1885; 2nd. edition Paris 1888)
+! published
-*''La folie érotique'' (Paris 1888)
+|-
-*''Du délire des persécutions, ou Maladie de [[Charles Lasègue|Lasègue]]'' (Paris 1890)
+| ''Des Embolies pulmonaires''
-*''Leçons sur les maladies mentales'' (Paris 1890)
+| ''Pulmonary Embolism''
+| Paris 1862<ref>{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Benjamin|author-link=|date=1862|title="Des Embolies pulmonaires"|trans-title=Pulmonary Embolism|publication-place=[[Paris]], [[France]]|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8804528|url-status=live|access-date=26 November 2002|edition=1|volume=1|language=fr|location= |publisher=A. Coccoz|page=1-147|isbn=978-2-0195-4421-8|archive-date=26 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126005209/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8804528/f9.highres}}</ref>
+|-
+| ''Du rhumatisme viscéral''
+| ''Visceral rheumatism''
+| Paris 1866
+|-
+| ''La médecine mentale à travers les siècles''
+| ''Mental medicine through the centuries''
+| Paris 1879
+|-
+| ''La morphinomanie''
+| ''On morphinomania''
+| 1st edition: Paris 1885<ref>{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Benjamin|author-link=|date=|title=''La morphinomanie''|trans-title=''On morphinomania''|publication-place=[[Paris]], [[France]]|edition=1|volume=1|language=fr|location= |publisher=Asselin et Houzeau|page=1-166|isbn=|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k764030|url-status=live|access-date=26 November 2002|archive-date=26 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126092152/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k764030/f9.highres}}</ref>; 2nd edition: Paris 1888<ref>{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Benjamin|author-link=|date=|title=''La morphinomanie''|trans-title=''On morphinomania''|publication-place=[[Paris]], [[France]]|edition=2|volume=1|language=fr|location= |publisher=E. Lefrançois|page=1-248|isbn=|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5462855z|url-status=live|access-date=26 November 2002|archive-date=26 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126092947/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5462855z/f8.highres}}</ref>
+|-
+| ''La folie érotique''
+| ''On erotic insanity''
+| 1st edition: Paris 1888<ref>{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Benjamin|author-link=|date=1888|title=''La folie érotique''|trans-title=''On erotic insanity''|publication-place=[[Paris]], [[France]]|volume=1|language=fr|edition=1|location= |publisher=J.-B. Baillière|page=1-158}|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k76732d|access-date=26 November 2002|url-status=live|archive-date=26 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126061722/https%3A%2F%2Fgallica.bnf.fr%2Fark%3A%2F12148%2Fbpt6k76732d%2Ff8.highres}}</ref>; 2nd edition: Paris 1893<ref>{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Benjamin|author-link=|date=1893|title=''La folie érotique''|trans-title=''On erotic insanity''|publication-place=[[Paris]], [[France]]|volume=1|language=fr|edition=2|location= |publisher=A. Coccoz|page=1-157|isbn=978-2-3381-0680-7|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k220755n|url-status=live|access-date=26 November 2002|archive-date=26 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126070139/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k220755n/f1.highres}}</ref>
+|-
+| ''Du délire des persécutions, ou Maladie de [[Charles Lasègue|Lasègue]]''
+| ''On persecution deliria''
+| Paris 1890<ref>{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Benjamin|author-link=|date=1890|title=''Du délire des persécutions, ou Maladie de Lasègue''|trans-title=''On persecution deliria''|publication-place=[[Paris]], [[France]]|edition=1|volume=1|language=fr|location= |publisher=Asselin & Houzeau|page=1-109|isbn=978-2-8512-8073-2|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k76927c|url-status=live|access-date=26 November 2002|archive-date=26 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126080045/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k76927c/f8.highres}}</ref>
+|-
+| ''Leçons sur les maladies mentales''
+| ''Lessons on Mental Illnesses''
+| 1st ediiton: Paris 1880<ref>{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Benjamin|author-link=|date=1880|title=''Leçons sur les maladies mentales''|trans-title=''Lessons on Mental Illnesses''|publication-place=[[Paris]], [[France]]|edition=1|volume=1|language=fr|location= |publisher=P. Asselin|page=1-884|isbn=|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5825643v/f10.highres|url-status=live|access-date=26 November 2002|archive-date=26 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126091507/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5825643v/f10.highres}}</ref>; 2nd edition: Paris 1890<ref>{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Benjamin|author-link=|date=1890|title=''Leçons sur les maladies mentales''|trans-title=''Lessons on Mental Illnesses''|publication-place=[[Paris]], [[France]]|edition=2|volume=|language=fr|location= |publisher=Asselin et Houzeau|page=1-1870|isbn=978-2-8512-8073-2|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k766266|url-status=live|access-date=26 November 2002|archive-date=26 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126052345/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k766266/f6.highres}}</ref>
+|}
+==Awards==
+By decree on 14 July 1880 (declaration: 29 January 1881) Ball was awarded a [[Knight]] in [[France|France's]] [[Legion of Honour]].<ref name="legion_1880">{{cite web|title=Ball, Benjamin - Certificate No 24,607|website=France’s National Archives - Léonore Database|location=France|date=14 July 1880|page=1|language=fr|url=https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/ui/#show|access-date=26 November 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125234759/https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/archives-images/LH008/FRDAFAN83_OL0098032v001_L.jpg|archive-date=26 November 2022}}</ref>
+==Death==
+Ball suffered an illness for 12 months that prevented him from working as a physician. He died of the "severe mental strain" due to his illness at his Paris residence on 23 February 1893.<ref name="bmj_1893'>{{cite web|title=Obituary of Benjamin Ball, M.D.|website=[[British Medical Journal]]|date=1893|first=|last=|language=en|url=http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/1/1681/613.2.full.pdf|access-date=26 November 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126000226/https://www.bmj.com/content/1/1681/613.2|archive-date=26 November 2022}}</ref>
 ==References==
-* ''This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the [[French Wikipedia]].''
-* [http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/1/1681/613.2.full.pdf Obituary of Benjamin Ball, M.D.] in the ''[[British Medical Journal]].''
 {{reflist}}
-* {{cite book |title= Following Charcot: a Forgotten History of Neurology and Psychiatry |series=Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience |editor= Bogousslavsky J |publisher= S Karger Pub |year= 2010 |isbn= 978-3-8055-9556-8}}
+==See also==
+{{Portal|France}}
+* [[Legion of Honour]]
+* [[Musée de la Légion d'honneur|Legion of Honour Museum]]
+* [[List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (B)|List of Legion of Honour recipients by name (B)]]
+* [[List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur|List of foreign recipients of Legion of Honour by name]]
+* [[List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur by country|List of foreign recipients of the Legion of Honour by country]]
+* [[List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur by decade|List of foreign recipients of the Legion of Honour by decade]]
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