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 '5 ] . months, ■ when he was entrufted to my management and care on the 15th day of January 1771; and finding, upon the ftrifteft enquiry, that many proba¬ ble methods of cure had ineffeaually been referred to, and fuppofmg, by this periodical difcharge of the falival glands, that Nature had fliewn an effort of felf-affiftance; and as the patient was not altogether in fuch a date of laxity as to prohibit the experiment, and particularly defirous to try it, I re- folved to prolong the next monthly fputation by the affiftance of calomel, exhibited at proper diftances in quan¬ tities proportionate to the ftrength of the patient: accordingly, about a week before the expected return of the flux, I every night, at bed-time, gave him tw^o I