The present state and prospects of psychological medicine : with suggestions for improving the laws relating to the care and treatment of lunatics / by Joseph Seaton.

  • Seaton, Joseph.
Date:
1853
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    THE PRESEJ^T STATE AND PROSPECTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE. If we reflect upon the calamitous nature of the visitation which it professes to treat j if we estimate the important bearing which it has upon the general interests of society, and the consequent fearful responsibility it imposes; or if we consider the metaphysical nature of the inquiries it in- volves, Psychological Medicine may, I think, fairly claim to rank as the most noble branch of Medical Science, conferring honour upon all who may be engaged in its development, and pre-eminently entitling them to the respect and esteem of mankind. Let us inquire what is the actual state of the case. As regards the Science itself, it is true the public are be- ginning to have some faint apprehension of its importance, and occasionally we hear it apostrophized as affording a fine field for scientific inquiry !— an intensely interesting study !— a noble pursuit! yet, strange anomaly, to be found labouring in this fine field for scientific inquiry, to