A treatise on the nature, symptoms, causes, and treatment of insanity : with practical observations on lunatic asylums and a description of the Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the county of Middlesex, at Hanwell.

  • Ellis, William Charles, Sir, 1780-1839.
Date:
1838
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Credit: A treatise on the nature, symptoms, causes, and treatment of insanity : with practical observations on lunatic asylums and a description of the Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the county of Middlesex, at Hanwell. 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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    PREFACE. The fearful extent to which Insanity prevails, the severe bodily suffering usually attending its com- mencement and the painful change produced by it, in the powers and moral condition of man, render it a subject of intense interest to the philanthropist and the man of science. Recent parliamentary returns show, that there are in England 12,668 Pauper Lunatics and Idiots; and the Insane alone, including the different classes of society, cannot be estimated at fewer than 10,000. From the habits and mode of education of the upper ranks, particu- larly of the females, the brain and nervous system are kept in a state of constant over-excitement, whilst the frame is debilitated, from the muscles being rarely called into proper and regular exercise.