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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    TO COLONEL CLITHEROW, BOSTON HOUSE. My dear Sir, To whom could I dedicate the following attempt to afford relief to the most suffering class of my fellow-creatures, with so much propriety, as to yourself, whose whole life has been employed in promoting every scheme of benevolence, and whose personal happiness has increased in proportion to the success of your endeavours ? You have long stood forward as the bene- factor, and unflinching protector of the Insane. To your influence and unwearied exertions is mainly to be attributed this spacious Build- ing for their reception : and to your zealous and continued attention to their welfare, they are indebted for the means of procuring