Rules and list of the present members of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane : and the prize essay entitled The progressive changes which have taken place since the time of Pinel in the moral management of the insane, and the various contrivances which have been adopted instead of mechanical restraint / by Daniel H. Tuke.

  • Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane (London, England)
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1854
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Credit: Rules and list of the present members of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane : and the prize essay entitled The progressive changes which have taken place since the time of Pinel in the moral management of the insane, and the various contrivances which have been adopted instead of mechanical restraint / by Daniel H. Tuke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO EDWARD WYNDHAM, Esq., $c. $c. SfC., PRESIDENT. Sir, It affords me no small gratification to be the medium of dedicating this small volume to you, and to express the thanks and sincere regard of the Members for the regular and zealous interest you take in promoting the advantages of the Society. The Essay by Dr. Tuke (to whom was awarded the Prize of Twenty Guineas) has been considered worthy of publication, and with it the Rules and List of our present Members are herewith appended for more extensive circulation. Since the last volume of Essays was published, the Society has lost some of its most efficient members, and among them the late Right Hon. Lord Shaftesbury^ your predecessor in office, whose regularity of attendance and applicability to business, (in a matter in which his Lord- ship took a very great interest,) added so much distinction to it, though hitherto conducted as a private Society. The Awards given by the Society for meritorious conduct to Attendants upon the Insane, cannot but produce a most favourable result, and it is ardently to be wished that the funds were such as would admit of an increased number. I have the honor to remain, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, JOHN C. SOMMERS, Honorary Secretary. June, 1854.