General report of the Royal Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem, and of the House of Occupations : for the year ending 31st December, 1848.

Date:: 1849

Credit: General report of the Royal Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem, and of the House of Occupations : for the year ending 31st December, 1848. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$Apparent and Assigned Causes op Disease. MALES. FEMALES. (moral.) Embarrassment . 1 (moral.) Anxiety . Religion (physical. (physical.) Paralysis . . 1 Puerperal Uterine disturbance (hereditary.) (hereditary.) No hereditary tendency to insanity could be traced in either of the Male Curable Patients whose disease ter- minated fatally. Hereditary tendency to in-\ sanity was traced in four cases of the Curable Pa- tients whose disease ter- minated fatally, of which 1 appeared to be without other obvious cause. , Not ascertained 1$