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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    a greater influence upon the chances of recovery, than perhaps any other in the whole range of treatment. The author of the essay before us is a strenuous advocate for non-restraint in the treatment of the insane. The length of our extracts affords sufficient proof of the importance we attach to the subject. The author has adduced a number of important facts bear- ing on the superiority of the non-restraint system. The essay abounds in sentiments which do credit to the heart and feelings of the writer; and the zeal and activity which it displays for the improvement of the condition of the unhappy lunatic are deserving of every praise. Monthly Journal and Retrospect of Medical Sciences. We would remark that, with the admission incidentally made by Mr Labatt, that personal restraint may be admitted in some cases to facilitate treatment, few will be found who will combat with the rest of his essay. Dublin Evening Mail. Mr. Labatt is a. zealous advocate of the non-restraint system in the treatment of the insane, and truly his views are fully justified. That the case of non-restraint versus restraint has been satisfactorily decided in favor of the former, is, we think, fully proved in his essay. Dublin Evening Packet. This highly interesting and instructive essay, as peculiar for the vigour of its style as the clearness and perspicuity with which its views are put before the reader, will prove as acceptable to the legal as the medical pro- fession, comprehending as it does much useful information on the question of Insanity. Agriculturist's Gazette. On the whole we consider the work before us of exceeding merit. The extensive research it displays, and the desire it evinces throughout to enlist a humane and philanthopic interest in behalf of the unfortunate creatures it refers to, must and will, we trust, succeed in giving'a stimulus to the reac- tion which is in progress for the furtherance of a most ennobling object— the relief of suffering humanity.