An essay on insanity or mental aberration / by Edward Sutleffe.

  • Sutleffe, Edward.
Date:
1827
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Credit: An essay on insanity or mental aberration / by Edward Sutleffe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dreamless, is generally secured. The expressed juice of the ever-green herb, recently bruised, is swallowed at bedtime, 3 iss. which usually operates on the first dose : should it fail on the two first nights of securing rest, my prognosis is unfavour- able, judging that cerebral mischief operates, ex- cluding effectually the tranquillising effects of the despised herb. The trial is simple, and should the medical world continue sceptical, it would be wished that others would put it to the test, and give the world the result. Christians of every denomination aspire, by patient continuance in well-doing, to leave the world better than they found it. MANIA CURED WITH GLECOMA. Mr. E., South Finsbury, whom I was called to see, laboured under decided and established mania, many years'ago: several measures had been resorted to, but unsuccessfully. I had witnessed the inertness of the ground-ivy in some instances, and fearing lest this should be an additional case, I prescribed the juice of the despised herb with ambiguous feeling ; but knowing^none superior in efficacy, it was given. The tranquillising effects