Forty-fifth annual report of the directors of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics, submitted, in terms of their charter, to general meeting of contributors, 13th January, 1859.

  • Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum
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1859
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Credit: Forty-fifth annual report of the directors of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics, submitted, in terms of their charter, to general meeting of contributors, 13th January, 1859. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nearly one-third of the admissions were cases of Acute Mania, a form of insanity peculiarly amenable to medi¬ cal treatment, as is evidenced by the fact that, of 108 Patients dismissed cured, 39 belonged to this class. The next, in point of number, are those cases in which the mental delusions are comparatively circumscribed, and which, in accordance with the classification adopted in former Reports, are here enumerated under the head of “ Monomania.” Thirteen cases belong to the class “ Dypsomania,” an affection in which the prominent symptom is a want of moral control, exhibited by an irresistible desire for intoxicating liquors, and which is usually, but not invariably to be attributed to long con¬ tinued acts of intemperance. This form of insanity is sometimes complicated with that most distressing disease called Epilepsy. Table 2d, Division II. which gives the social condition of those admitted, exhibits an exception to the general rule noticed in last year’s Report, and which that Re¬ port amply illustrated, viz.—the greater predisposition to mental disease of the unmarried than of the married. While last year the admissions of the unmarried were to the married as 3 to 2, this year the number of the married preponderates. In accordance with usual experience, the greatest number of admissions are cases of individuals who have reached the middle period of life—the quinquennial period, 35 to 40, furnishing the greatest proportion. Causes.—As in former Reports, a table is given showing the various causes to which the insanity is supposed to be referable in the different cases. The in-
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