A few notes on lunacy in France suggested by a recent visit to French asylums : read at the annual meeting of the Medico-Psychological Assoc., July 26, 1878 : also, the proceedings of the International Congress of Mental Medicine, Paris, August, 1878 / by D. Hack Tuke.

  • Daniel Hack Tuke
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[1878]
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Credit: A few notes on lunacy in France suggested by a recent visit to French asylums : read at the annual meeting of the Medico-Psychological Assoc., July 26, 1878 : also, the proceedings of the International Congress of Mental Medicine, Paris, August, 1878 / by D. Hack Tuke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]6 M. Fotirnie; “ Llieredit^ morale,’’ by M. Fournet; and “ Patronage des alidnds,” by Herr Dr. Brosius, who, sorae years ago, translated into German, Dr. Conolly’s work on Mecbanical Restraints. At the close of the Congress, Dr. Hack Tuke, speaking on behalf of the foreign alienists, cordially thanked the Medico- Psychological Society of Paris for having proposed and carried out the International Congress, for their hospitality, and for the scientific excursions to the asylums in and near Paris, which had been so well planned. Especially were their thanks due to the indefatigable Secretary, M. Motet. Those who had met in that room should know of no rivalries but those which spring out of the desire to benefit humanity, and especially those unhappy persons who have lost their reason. Might the motto of their specialty, in all nations, be the words which he had seen inscribed upon the fagade of the Asylum of Yille-Evrard—“ Caritas et Scientia.’-’ In the evening the members sat down to a Banquet in the new and magnificent Hotel Continentale, presided over by Prof. Lasegue (in the absence of M. Baillarger). The Under Secretary for the Interior (M. Lepere) was present; also M. de Crisenoy, Directeur de Padininistration departementale et communale, De la Morinerie, Loiseau, Constans, Prank, &c. ■—sixty-six in all. On Monday, the 12th, an excursion was made to the Asylums of Quatre-Mares and St.-Yon, near Rouen. A fine new asylum is nearly completed, to which the patients now in the old Asylum of St.-Yon, in Rouen, will eventually be removed. The construction most in favour with the French asylum- physicians is the Pavilion plan, and may be thus described, subject, of course, to some modifications in different asylums. The premises are composed of pavilions with verandahs, airing courts, open corridors of communication, a building devoted to the administration of the asylum, and a chapel. Ihe ground floor of the pavilions contains the salle a manger and the salle de reunion, and a kitchen, or rather scullery, for all the cooking is done in the central kitchen. Dormi- tories occupy the first storey, and sometimes the rez-de- chauss^e. The pavilions (“ pavilions ”) are situated in lines, equi-distant, and allow of classification according to the mental condition of the patients, the tranquil, demi-tranquil, agitated and demi-agitated, the epileptic, the dirty, with an infirmary. For the most violent, cellules are usually provided at some