The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints / By John Conolly.

  • Conolly, John, 1794-1866.
Date:
1856
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Credit: The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints / By John Conolly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PART IV. ABOLITION OP MECHANICAL RESTRAINTS AT HANWELL IN 1839. Page The Lincoln Asylum—Dr. Charles worth and Mr. Gardiner Hill 176 Exertions of Colonel Clitherow and the Middlesex Magistrates to improve the condition of the pauper lunatics of the county (previous to 1831) 180 Improvements in the treatment of the insane effected by Sir William Ellis (1831-1838) 186 State of the Hanwell Asylum in 1839 . . ... 189 Extracts from the Annual Reports of the Physician to the Visiting Magistrates, 1839 to 1849 192 First Report, 1839 192 Disuse of mechanical restraints, and substitutes adopted . 193 Effects of the change 195 The number of attendants increased . . 196 Second Report, 1840 . ]9g Management of suicidal patients 198 Disuse of restraints at night in the epileptic patients . . 200 Vigilance and moral management substituted for restraint . 202 Seclusion in certain cases, and its effects 207 Mode of preventing it being abused 212 Difficulties to be overcome in abolishing restraints . . .215 Want of resources in officers and attendants accustomed to rely upon restraint 218 Third Report, 1841 .220 Effects of the liberation of patients from restraint 221 Illustrative cases . 222 Further precaution as to seclusion . . 232 Irritating effects of restraints ... ... 234 Necessity of forbearance in the management of lunatics . . 235 Religious services, effects of, and greater tranquillity of Sunday 237 Fourth Report, 1842 240 Zealous co-operation of all the officers of the asylum . . 240 Further illustrations of the effects of a tranquillizing system . 242 Illustrative cases . ' . 244 Fifth Report, 1843 ... 248 Instruction of the patients , . . 249