Category: Health & Medicine
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, AND OF THE MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, AND OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIET...
“The safety of those who attend upon the insane, is certainly an object of great importance; but it is worthy of enquiry whether it may not be attained, without materially inter...
11. Part 11Again, in confirmation of the same argument, we may here remark, that the greatest number of those who become insane, become so between the ages of thirty and forty,—a period wh...
8. Part 8By this system of greater liberality, it would soon be found, that patients would no longer consist of violent and extreme cases alone, but that every thing repulsive in their p...
13. Part 13At present, however, I will not enter into a clear and full explanation of this momentous subject; but I trust hereafter I shall be able show, that I am fully prepared to prove...
5. Part 5One great art in this management was that of Mrs. Allen’s making her useful as her deputy in every thing in the house, either in matters of a household nature, or in attending u...
3. Part 3In many cases, an entirely separate house is required. I have known cases, the cure of which would have been apparently blighted and blasted for ever, if they could not have bee...
12. Part 12Nothing satisfactory on record. Said to have been a violent maniac. He was kept naked on loose straw. Since that time it is said he was improved by a seton; but still he was to...
9. Part 9It is painful to reflect on their former treatment; caged in iron-gratings and exhibited for money! Treated as wild beasts, they necessarily became like them, or worse! Devils i...
10. Part 10But as I intend to devote an Essay on Atmospheric influence, I shall content myself with asserting, in the mean time, that there is some common cause, or causes, assigned either...
7. Part 7It has been, that restraint was resorted to, from the idleness and carelessness of keepers; and in these cases, when restrained, being neglected, they acquired dirty habits, ver...
4. Part 4It is too well known that many who are all life and energy in company, sink on returning home, into this state of apathetic melancholy. This is especially the case with those pe...
2. Part 2_Page_ On the buildings, grounds, situation, and system, necessary 1 for all purposes of an efficient classification Illustrated by an interesting case of recovery, No. 106. 5 D...
1. Part 1MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, AND OF THE MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, AND OF THE PHREN...
14. Part 14He always addressed strangers as contemporaries, saying, “Good God! you were alive at such a time: I knew you well; you were with me when I conquered at the plains of Marathon!...