Wandsworth asylum : a letter to the committee of visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum / by Charles Snape, Medical Superintendent, (Male Department), in reference to the case of Daniel Dolley.

  • Snape, Charles.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Wandsworth asylum : a letter to the committee of visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum / by Charles Snape, Medical Superintendent, (Male Department), in reference to the case of Daniel Dolley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon to la}^ before you with a particular of the points I am required to establish in rebuttal of the charges which have been made against me, directly or indirectly, in refe- rence to the death of Daniel Dolley, in the Wandsworth- Lunatic Asylum, on the 9th of April last, after Jveing under treatment, by my directions, as Medical Superin- tendent of the Male Department, in which he yvas placed. The following propositions, will, I believ/e, meet all the Points to be i.i i • . established. charges thus made against me :— O O , I. That the treatment administered^ by my direction was justifiable in itself. II. That the treatment was administered, not as a punish- ment, but solely as a remedial agent. III. That in ordering sucl/A treatment I was not in- fluenced by vindictive flfootives against the deceased. Added to which, I am further prepared to show— IV. That the treatment- administered was certainly not the primary, and probably not even the secondary, cause of death. , . . As my statement is of a twofold character,—viz., expla- nation and justification , of my principles of treatment on the one hand, and an Explanation of the real facts pre- ceding the decease of Daniel Dolley on the other,—it will save time if I first explain what have been my principles of treatment of mania since jny appointment to your Insti- B .