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The chains legend and the man who actually removed them

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Philippe Pinel (Wikipedia)
The Bicêtre and Salpêtrière
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In fact, it was Pussin who removed the iron shackles (but sometimes using straitjackets) at Bicêtre in 1797, after Pinel had left for the Salpêtrière.
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