State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (instituted November 4, 1819) : [eighteenth report].

  • Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (Lincoln, England)
Date:
1842
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Credit: State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (instituted November 4, 1819) : [eighteenth report]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LINCOLN L UNATIC ASYLUI TO TO T£ Jii5 The treatment of Insanity in modem times has become gra¬ dually more and more successful. This may be divided into the Medical treatment of the Insane, and the general Economy of their Management. The strictly Medical practice may be said to have made very insignificant advance; and it may at once be distinctly stated, that the expectation of success under any specific medical means, is founded on the most erroneous principle. Many diseased structures and many disordered functions, in various parts of the human frame, may directly, or by sympathy, produce derange¬ ment in the corporeal organs, used in the operations of the consci¬ ous power. It is clear that sound practice must depend upon a systematic classification of the different exciting and sustaining causes, which affect these organs: and, though the intellectual symptoms may appear identical, it is clear that these exciting and