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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    with confidence, the disease would be stripped of half its terrors, and the constant succession of patients to such an institution would abundantly repay the proprietors. A few observations are added on epilepsy and the diseases of the insane. On the former very little is yet known. An attempt has been made to draw a distinction between moral evil and insanity. A marked dif- ference between the two really exists, although this difference is often difficult to be determined in in- dividual cases. I greatly fear that, in every large public asylum, many will be found morally respon- sible before God, as rational beings, for that vicious conduct, which is by society mercifully attributed to insanity.