Twenty-second annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted in terms of their charter to a general meeting of the directors, 20th June, 1842.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Twenty-second annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted in terms of their charter to a general meeting of the directors, 20th June, 1842. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m m / QUERIES. ANSWERS. 10. Since the commencement of the malady, what have been the pa¬ tient’s habits ? State particu¬ larly whether the patient is at¬ tentive to the calls of nature. II. What is the age, and what was the profession or occupation of the patient ? 12. Is the patient married or single, and was any relative of the pa¬ tient ever insane ? --—--- ■ 13. Before the commencement, either of the malady or of any of its precursory symptoms, had the patient been remarkable for any degree of oddity, eccentricity, or mental infirmity ? Mention pre- [ dominant passions or prejudices, \ religious impressions, and any habitual vice or intemperance. 14. Is the patient subject to periodi¬ cal attacks of any other malady ; to any unusual discharge, or to suppression or obstruction of any customary discharge; to sores, eruptions, rupture, epilepsy, or palsy ? Specify any bodily in¬ firmity or disease of the patient. 15. Did the present fit of lunacy oc¬ cur, or has any former fit occur¬ red, during pregnancy or in child¬ bed ? V 16. 4Vas the head of the patient ever severely injured ? 17. What is supposed to have been \ the exciting cause of the malady ? 18. What has been done for the re¬ covery of the patient ? and with what effect ? 19. Has the patient ever been treat¬ ed for lunacy in any public asy- , lum or private mad-house? If \ so, how often, and how long on 1 each occasion, has the patient been in any such establishment ? When, in what state, and, if not cured, for what reason was the patient dismissed ? V (Signed)