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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    / nefs it was to fupply him with his aliment, which was light, cooling, and eafy of digeftion; at the fame time that his conftant drink was weak and diluting; this was abfolutely necelfary, as his regimen, although frequently di- refted to be cool and light, had never been properly attended to; a circum- ftance exceedingly blameable, and to be only imputed to the miftaken indul¬ gence of his friends. For twelve nights fucceffively he ufed the warm pedilu- vium, which refting him fomething better than he had long before done, I was induxed to go a ftep farther, and .try the effefts of opium, which I be¬ gan in the evening of the thirteenth day after he came to me, in the quan¬ tity of fifteen drops of the Elixir Pa- regoricum.
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