An essay on the use and abuse of restrain in the management of the insane, including some remarks on the origin and nature of their diseases.

  • Labatt, Hamilton.
Date:
1847
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Credit: An essay on the use and abuse of restrain in the management of the insane, including some remarks on the origin and nature of their diseases. 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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    emanated, either in a public or official form, from the gentleman against whom the charge has been pre- ferred and substantiated before the assembled College ! In this simple statement of facts, which is only due to the other candidates, the author has but one mo- tive. He seeks to place in a clear and intelligible light, the precise position occupied by the writer of the selected Essay, previous to the final adjudication, in relation to his competitors; who, in submitting their manuscripts with fictitious signatures, meditated no delusion ; but rather conceived they were giving the first or initiative guarantee, on their respective parts, for the honorable fulfilment of that mutual compact, enjoining secrecy as to authorship, which the spirit of the first advertisement from the College obviously dictated ; and with the intention, be it recollected, of rendering the final decision as pure, unalloyed, and unexceptionable as possible. But it would be unjust and ungenerous, to neglect so legitimate an opportunity to acknowledge the high and independent course pursued by those influential members of the Council, who, when the facts were clearly before them, did not hesitate to admit, in open College, the errors which had been committed ; and