Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables, ... / by Robert Gardiner Hill.

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Credit: Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables, ... / by Robert Gardiner Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Physician's Report. 1834, January 31.—I will beg to call the attention of the Board to the propriety of considering whether the use of fermented liquors under the general diet table, should not be discontinued, and the matter left for medical order in special cases. It is very questionable whether the temporary tone procured by any kind of stimulus, is not in many cases mis- chievous, and whether the curative process should not be made to depend upon a permanent Increase of tone indirectly procured by nutrition, air, and exercise. (Signed) E. P. Charlesworth, [Attending Physician.] February 3.—Resolved, That the Physician’s Report relating to the Beer, be referred to the Physicians of this Institution. February 10.—In pursuance of a resolution at the last weekly Board, that the opinion of the Physicians of this Institution, [Dr. Charlesworth, Dr. W. Cookson, and Dr. Elmhirst,] should be taken on the subject of discontinuing the use of fermented liquors for the patients, except under special medical order, and the Physicians having unanimously recommended its dis-continuance. Ordered, That the use of fermented liquor for the patients of this Institution be dis-continued for the future, except un- der special medical order. Extracts from the Tenth Annual Report. 1834, March.—Strangers who visit the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum usually express their great surprise at the freedom enjoyed by the patients, and the rarity of even individual instances of personal restraint. The treatment by which the patients are induced to supply by self-control the necessity for restraint, may be explained partly by the facility, which i
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