Remarks on nervous & mental disorder, with especial reference to recent investigations on the subject of insanity / by David Uwins.

Date:
1830
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Credit: Remarks on nervous & mental disorder, with especial reference to recent investigations on the subject of insanity / by David Uwins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it will be unnecessary to enlarge on here, for alluding to the Quarterly Review, but which it is probable, on a future occasion, I may more particularly explain. “Oh!” say the gentlemen of the robe, (who have lately been so free with medical cha- racter, and so exceedingly witty on medical professors,) “ you are ‘ a mad doctor,’ are you ? We are not then surprised that you should come forward with your apologetic pen, on the present crisis, and we may easily anticipate the context of your present pamphlet.” i Mad, my friends, I may be; of that it is for you to judge, in the plenitude of your Metaphysico-medico legal knowledge ; but “ mad doctor” I am not. Nay, with all the feeling just expressed in favour of one par- ticular department of medical investigation and scrutiny, I have ever been averse from the principle and practice of separating in- sanity, strictly so called, if indeed it can be strictly so called, from other maladies which are allied to it in nature, and differ from it only in degree. In another part of this essay