Outlines of lectures on mental diseases / By Alexander Morison.

  • Alexander Morison
Date:
1826
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Credit: Outlines of lectures on mental diseases / By Alexander Morison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Surrey,—the performance of which duty has been considered deserving of the unanimous thanks of the Magistrates. Anxious to investigate the history of the Morbid phenomena of the Human Mind, and desirous, as far as in me lay, to add my mite towards the re¬ lief of suffering humanity, I have been induced to direct my attention to the nature and causes of Mental Disorder, and to the means of its pre¬ vention, mitigation and cure. In this pursuit I acknowledge myself much indebted to the labours of many eminent medical men. If in the judgment of those best qualified to decide upon questions of this nature, I shall be thought to have, in the smallest degree, added to the knowledge already obtained upon this sub¬ ject, or to the means which may tend to mitigate or lessen the frequency of the most calamitous of human events, I shall console myself in the re¬ flection that I have not altogether lived in vain. How far the arrangement of these Lectures may tend to facilitate the study of Mental Dis-
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