Category: Health & Medicine
The following OBSERVATIONS are respectfully submitted to YOUR notice, as the vigilant and humane Guardians of an _Institution_ which performs much good to society, by diminishing the SEVEREST amongst human calamities,
C. M. a man forty years of age, was admitted into the hospital Dec. 26, 1795. It was stated, that he had been disordered two months previous to his having been received as a pat...
2. Part 2Insane people are said to be generally worse in the morning; in some cases they certainly are so, but perhaps not so frequently as has been supposed. In many instances (and, as...
4. Part 4It has been stated by a gentleman of great accuracy, and whose situation affords him abundant opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of diseased appearances, that the fluid of hyd...
1. Part 1The following OBSERVATIONS are respectfully submitted to YOUR notice, as the vigilant and humane Guardians of an _Institution_ which performs much good to society, by diminishin...
5. Part 5Age between Number admitted. Number discharged Number discharged cured. uncured. 10 and 20 113 78 35 20 and 30 488 200 288 30 and 40 527 180 347 40 and 50 362 87 275 50 and 60 1...
6. Part 6In many cases of insanity there prevails a great degree of insensibility, so that patients have appeared hardly to feel the passing of setons, the application of blisters, or th...