Cases of insanity, the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders, successfully treated / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West Malling, in Kent.

William Perfect

Date:: [1780?]

Credit: Cases of insanity, the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders, successfully treated / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West Malling, in Kent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$re.8 ] namely, that he was ruined and undone! \vhich was his inceflant exclamation by- night and day. He had taken ftrong purges, antimoniacal vomits, ammo- niac draughts, fagapenum and fteel had been exhibited in continued dofes, iffues, venasfection, a feton, and blif- ters, had been tried for a feries of time; bathing: and, in fhort, almoft every thing feemed to have been done without any vifible alteration for the better. He had, however, never been fixed in a proper place of retirement, nor had the relations ever fufficiently excluded him from company and the converfation of curious impertinence. When I undertook the care of this perfon, he appeared very impatient of contradiction, and even talking to him, in$