The domestic guide in cases of insanity : pointing out the causes, means of preventing, and proper treatment, of that disorder.

  • Bakewell, Thomas, 1761-1835.
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The domestic guide in cases of insanity : pointing out the causes, means of preventing, and proper treatment, of that disorder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    o complaint is more dreaded than this, and while intemperance so much prevails, there is none in the catalogue of human ills, from which we ere less secure: end though irregular and wicked livers are particularly exposed to it, yet the prudent and moral are not always exempted; for the labourer, who exerts himself beyond his strength, during the heats of a summer's day, and m afterwards exposed to the dews of the evening and eats a supper of hard indigestible food, is <ns liable to this affliction, as his master, who indulges in scenes of luxury and sensuality. While this treatise only aspires to the title of DOMESTIC GUIDE, the medical enquirer will turn to the scientific pages of a Monro, Arnold, Crichton, Haslaro, Johnson, Rowley, Cox, and others; but what- ever may be the abilities of these gentlemen, it must . be allowed, that the general knowledge of insanity is very much in its infancy; and this may be pleaded in excuse for many things to be found in these pages, that might otherwise appear trifling. It is not more than fifty years since a man was generally thought a conjurer through several of the midland counties, for no other rearon, than because it was notorious that he had cured numbers of insanity. The knowledge of this complaint hasmostcertamly advanced too much for any one lorain the reputation of dealing in the black art, (even with the common people) by the cure of it: but much re- f»uu for mvotigaUon, and the lime may not be far distant,