On the statistics of puerperal insanity as observed in the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, Morningside / [by J. Batty Tuke].

  • Tuke, J. Batty, Sir (John Batty), 1835-1913.
Date:
[1865?]
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Credit: On the statistics of puerperal insanity as observed in the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, Morningside / [by J. Batty Tuke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE STATISTICS OF PUEEPEBAL INSANITY AS OBSERVED IN THE ROYAL EDINBURGH ASYLUM, MORNINGSIDE. •■ If. /batty . &jL, k.% The following paper was drawn up a short time ago, more for the purpose of satisfying my own curiosity than for publication I was anxious to_ discover how tar the records of our own asylum corresponded with the published results of other hospitals for the insane, and therefore gathered together from the case-books of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, 155 cases of so-called puerperal mama. All these cases have been admitted within the lastf eighteen years, and, with very few exceptions, the history of each patient has been most carefully reported in the case-books of the institution by the various resident physicians. As an earnest for the accuracy ot the details, I may mention the names of Drs Skae, Howden and reporting the several cases Having collated these 155 cases of puerperal mania, it appeared to me that it might not be unim- portant to place the results on the records of thi? Society; and I therefore submit to you an unambitious paper, as it lays claim to no originality, but one, I trust, not entirely ^interesting, as illus- taatmg the practice of our metropolitan lunatic asylum in one of the most interesting forms of insanity. J Before proceeding further, I must state that a very large pro- portion of the puerperal cases here spoken of were of the most severe character, such as could not be treated at home whose ST- * milder ?rmS 0f the disease we seldom, if ever, see attendant SSS S hT* ^ * C™ of the family me 1 S attendant. 1 he results of treatment, therefore, of puerperal insanity tL ltt ToT\ fh \th'1S PapCr; * ™W demonstrated trie lesson to be learnt from the experience of a hospital whoso patients have suffered from the malady in its full force '