A Treatise on Insanity; In Which Are Contained the Principles of a New and More Practical Nosology of Maniacal Disorders Than Has Yet Been Offered T - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1806. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... his bed, in the position in which he had left him. (h) Another poor man fell a victim on the same night to the severity of the weather, notwithstanding the frequent visits of the keeper. ARE PERSONS WHO HAVE RECOVERED FROM THIS DISEASE SUBJECT TO RELAPSES, AND WHAT ARE THE PREVENTATIVES OF SUCH RELAPSES? 12. A Wise man is cautious how he becomes the echo of a commonly received opinion. He discusses it freely, and adopts or rejects it on the evidence solely of facts. Such an opinion, is that which prevails in regard to the incurable nature of insanity. Such, therefore, are the tests by which it ought to be tried. It is of some importance to ascertain, how far this generally received notion accords with the (A) I find by my memorandums, that the month Vendemiaire, (which includes the latter part of September and the principal part of October,) of the thitd year was temperate. On the 29'h of the -ame month, (Oct. 21,) the thermometer stood at eight degrees above the freezing point On the Sd Brumaire, (Nov. 14,; the wii:d changed to the North, the cold was piercing, and he next morning the quicksilver was scarcely one degree above the freezing ppint. facts "which have heen observed in well regulated hospitals in England and France. The acute sensibility which generally characterises the temperaments of maniacs, and which renders them susceptible of the liveliest emotions both of pleasure and pain, renders them likewise liable to relapses. But this consideration ought to operate upon such as are subject to this complaint, as an additional inducement to subdue their passions by the dictates of wisdom, and to fortify their minds by the precepts of enlightened morality. The writings of Plato, Seneca and other philosophers of antiquity, will be found of more emi...