Chazaud J
Hist Sci Med. 1998;32(1):69-73.
In the beginning of "Year IV", Cabanis writes an Essay on the guillotine. Strangely enough, he advocated the scaffold against Soemmering and Süe on an argumented physiological ground, while he strongly condemns it from a political and moral standpoint. This ambivalence could be explained by the paradoxes of the culpability feelt by the humanist practitionner who had to represent the Paris Hospitals Commission when the machine to be the Great Terror's servant was tested, for the first time, by Louis, Guillotine and Pinel.
在“第四年”年初，卡巴尼斯写了一篇关于断头台的文章。奇怪的是，他基于充分的生理学依据，反对索默林和叙厄而主张保留断头台，然而从政治和道德立场出发，他又强烈谴责断头台。这种矛盾态度可以用人道主义从业者的罪责悖论来解释，当时作为巴黎医院委员会代表的他，见证了路易、断头台和皮内尔首次对这台成为恐怖统治工具的机器进行测试。
