Supplement to the Croonian lectures : medical testimony and evidence in cases of lunacy / by Thomas Mayo.

  • Thomas Mayo
Date:
1856
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Credit: Supplement to the Croonian lectures : medical testimony and evidence in cases of lunacy / by Thomas Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    situated they enter service, live on more and better food than they have been accustomed to, incur the constitutional disturbance above al- luded to, which is liable, according to idiosyn- crasy to terminate in the catastrophes recorded, or in some milder excess. With respect to such results, I have no doubt, first, that they may be mitigated or prevented by education; secondly, that they should be the subject of punishment when they occur. The tendency of ray argument in this respect is to limit certain indefinite generalisations of insanity, which, no doubt, if left to themselves, will be eventually discarded in favour of more mature views; but, perhaps, not before they have done some social mischief, by occasioning a practical fusion of normal and exceptional states of mind. But in the course of this ex- perimental procedure, much moral evil, which is a fair subject for the preventives of education, wiU be withdrawn from its province; and the mad-house wiU be allowed to supersede the school. To the author. Dr. Alfred Taylor, some of whose views on this subject I have
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