Hints for introducing an improved mode of treating the insane in the asylum : read before the Governors of the New-York Hospital, on the 4th of Fourth-month, 1815 / by Thomas Eddy.

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1815
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Credit: Hints for introducing an improved mode of treating the insane in the asylum : read before the Governors of the New-York Hospital, on the 4th of Fourth-month, 1815 / by Thomas Eddy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    restraint, such an ample force should be employed as will preclude the idea of resistance from entering the mind of the patient. 7th. It shall be the duty of the deputy keeper, immediately on a patient being admitted, to obtain his name, age, where born, what has been his employment or oc- cupation, his general disposition and habits, when first attacked with mania; if it has been violent or otherwise, the cause of his disease, if occasioned by religious melan- choly, or a fondness for ardent spirits, if owing to an injury received on any part of the body, or supposed to arise from any other known cause, hereditary or adventi- tious, and the name of the physician who may have attended him, and his manner of t reating the patient while under his direc- tion. 8th. Such of the patients as may be se- lected by the physician, or the committee of the Asylum, shall be occasionally taken out to walk or ride under the care of the deputy keeper : and it shall be also his duty to employ the patients in such man- ner, and to provide them with such kinds of amusements and books as may be ap- proved and directed by the Committee. 9th. The female keeper shall endeavour to have the female patients constantly era-
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