Moreau, Jacques

The French physician, Jacques Joseph Moreau, remains the most-cited connection between cannabis and the art community. Moreau first used hashish while traveling through the Middle East in the 1830s. He assumed that cannabis-induced sensations might model the hallucinations and delusions common in psychotic individuals. He had hoped that this research might help the treatment of the mentally ill. The outspoken hedonist and popular novelist, Theophile Gautier assisted Moreau in this research. He not only participated himself, but he also recruited other members of Frances artistic community. This group of hedonists and experimenters met monthly in an old mansion in Paris which was known at the time as the Club Des Hachichins (Hashish Club). For historical reviews on cannabis, see Abel and Mechoulam. ... 

One of the more systematically studied drugs in this period was cannabis. In the 1840s, the French physician Jacques-Joseph Moreau de Tours was working at a mental hospital in Paris. He theorized that treatment should substitute symptoms of mental illness with similar but controllable drug-induced symptoms (Caldwell, 1978, p. 16). Moreau used cannabis and found gaiety and euphoria to be among its effects. He decided to give... 

Dr. Jacques-Joseph Moreau (1804-84) had studied psychiatry under one of its most important innovators, Jean Esquirol. It was due to Esquirol s influence, for instance, that psychiatrists began to recognise that the events preceding mental breakdown sometimes held the key to the mystery of mental illness. It was also due to Esquirol s influence that psychiatrists such as Moreau became intrigued with hallucinations, believing that if psychiatry could only determine what caused them, it might be able to get at the cause of insanity itself. 

Gascan, H., Godard, A., Ferenz, C., Naulet, J., Praloran, V., Peyrat, M.-A., Hewick, R., Jacques, Y., Moreau, J.-F. and Soulillou, J.-P. (1989) Characterization and NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of natural human interleukin for DA cells leukemia inhibitory factor. J. Biol. Chem. 264 21509-21515. 

Claude Cassagne, Rang Lessire, Jean-Jacques Bessoule and Patrick Moreau... 

Cassagne Claude, Bessoule Jean-Jacques, Schneider Florence, Lessire Rene, Sturbois Ben6dicte, Moreau Patrick, Spinner Christel. 

Therese Guillot-Salomon, Jacques Davy de Virville, Ivone Aaron, Marie-Frangoise Alin, Catherine Cantrel and Frangois Moreau... 

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