Practical Observations On Insanity And The Treatment Of The Insane PDF Download

Excerpt from Practical Observations on Insanity: In Which Some Suggestions Are Offered Towards and Improved Mode of Treating Diseases of the Mind, and Some Rules Proposed Which It Is Hoped May Lead to a More Humane and Successful Method of Cure; To Which Are Subjoined, Remarks on Medical Jurisprudence A The Author of the following pages having devoted himself exclusively and assiduously, for a series of years, to the care and cure of maniacal patients, in an establishment where persons of both sexes are received, has had ample opportunity of comparing the effects produced by different modes of treatment, and flatters himself he has advanced some steps towards improvement in this particular department of medical practice. Although the hints contained in these pages are derived from diligent observation, and an uninterrupted experience of many years, yet they are offered with a degree of diffidence which, it is hoped, will procure them a correspondent degree of candor and indulgence from the Public. The observations are accompanie dwith cases: these, while they seem to illustrate the different modes of treatment adopted in different forms of insanity, will, it is presumed, be found to exhibit many striking and important facts connected with the history of mental derangement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.