Considerations on the moral management of insane persons.

  • Haslam, John, 1764-1844.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Considerations on the moral management of insane persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be deprived of ordinary bedding, and doomed to sleep on straw. From the stench which usually attends him, he becomes intolerable in the society of those who are of cleaner habits, and he is very subject to excoriations, and occasionally to mortifications, from the acrimony of the filth in which he is enve¬ loped. Daring the prevalence of the active / state of mania, where the sensibility is often \ ♦ so diminished, that the ordinary pain arising from distension is not perceived, and where the evacuations are retained, the utmost at¬ tention should be given by the medical prac¬ titioner to the state of the bowels and bladder: indeed I am fully persuaded that such reite- » , rated distension has in many instances laid the' foundation for very troublesome, if not incurable, debility, and incontinence of these evacuations. It would therefore be no incon¬ siderable disgrace that an insane person should recover the proper direction of his intellect to