Volume 1

Observations on the nature, kinds, causes, and prevention of insanity, lunacy, or madness / by Thomas Arnold, M.D.

  • Arnold, Thomas, 1742-1816.
Date:
1782-1786
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Credit: Observations on the nature, kinds, causes, and prevention of insanity, lunacy, or madness / by Thomas Arnold, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    labour of one mau, or of one age; and when- ever it ihall be accomplilhed, muft be the obje(5l of a much larger treatife than 1 have any thought of laymg before the pubhc at prefent. Hereafter I may encicavour to do Ibmething towards the complcthig of fuch a plan ; and I am not without hope that the diligent obfervation even of one ma:i, con- duced with a fteady attention to fo great and important an object, may do more than could be expeftcd w'hcn we take a rctrofpe6live view of the fmall advances that have hitherto been made, in a feries of ages, by the num- bers who have had no fuch plan in profpcdt r at lead: it is my intention, at fome future pe- riod, if I have life and health, to offer to the world as full, and exa6l a defcriptioii of the? Nature, Caiifes, and Cure of the vnr'ious kindp of Infanity, its my linall abilities, aided by no fmall experience in thefe deplorable maladies^ will enable me to execute.—This cffay will,, in the mean time, fufficiently attain its end, if, by acquainting fuch of the lefs informed part of the public, whom it may moft con- cern, with the great variety of thofe diforders which are called by the general appellation of S ai Madne.ss^