Methods of cure, in some particular cases of insanity: the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders / [William Perfect].

  • William Perfect
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[1778]
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Credit: Methods of cure, in some particular cases of insanity: the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders / [William Perfect]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C ^26 ] m made of many medicines, judged Lo be fpecifically nervous; his habit of drinking: he had curtailed, almoil to a plan of temperance, with which I wifhed him rigidly to comply, as the / moll efFe6lual chance of relief from the medicines I fhould give him; he faithfully promifed to acquiefce, and as he lived at a great diftance from me, a quantity of the drops and decoc¬ tion, fufficient for three months, was given him; but it was near three weeks, before the.expiration of that time, that I received a letter from him, couched in the ftrongeft terms, of the moft refpecl;- fui gratitude, which he entertained for the fervice I had done him, and / deCring, that his cafe might be made public; I 9