Methods of cure, in some particular cases of insanity: the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders / [William Perfect].

  • Perfect, William, 1737-1809
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[1778]
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Credit: Methods of cure, in some particular cases of insanity: the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders / [William Perfect]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And if hereditary, is not removeable by any method, which the fcience of phylic, even at its prefent much im¬ proved hate, is able to fuggelf. In which unhappy and irremediable ftage, proper management alone feems all ! that can he done; yet, in its confe- qiiential Jlate^ ariling from Epilepfy, Child-birth, Fevers, Anxiety, exceffive Grief, Frights, Intenfenefs of Study, irregular Living, or ftrong and tingo- verned Paflions, the aid of medicine j . cannot too foon be called in.—Ac¬ cordingly, the late learned and cele¬ brated Dr. William Baltic, in his moft excellent Treatife on Madnefs, fays, Laxity, whenever it intervenes be¬ tween fpafm and delirious preffure, and thereby becomes a remoter caufe of