Observations on insanity : with practical remarks on the disease, and an account of the morbid appearances on dissection / by John Haslam.

  • Haslam, John, 1764-1844.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Observations on insanity : with practical remarks on the disease, and an account of the morbid appearances on dissection / by John Haslam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    teii had recovered ^; and alio that the age was of no lignlfication, unlefs the patient had been afflifted before v/lth the fame malady f* How little foever I might be difpofed to doubt fiich a bold, unprecedented, and mar-> Vellous account, yet, I mufi: acknowledge^ that my mind would have been much more fatisfied as to the truth of that alTertion, had it been plaufibly made out, or had the circum- ftances been otherwife than feebly recolle6led by that very fuccefsftil praftitioneri Medi- cine has generally been efteemed a progref- five fcience, in which its profeffors have con- fefled themfelves indebted to great prepara- tory ftudy, and long fubfequent experience^ for the knowledge they have acquired; but^ in the cafe to which we are now alluding, the outfet of the doftor's practice was marked ^ with fuch fplendid faccefs, that time and obfervation have been unable to increafe it. * Report) p. 59. t Ibid. ^j. I 2 This