State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum, from January 1st, 1851, to December 31st, 1851, inclusive : instituted November 4, 1819 [twenty-eighth report].

  • Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (Lincoln, England)
Date:
1852
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Credit: State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum, from January 1st, 1851, to December 31st, 1851, inclusive : instituted November 4, 1819 [twenty-eighth report]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9 » Xll. The Board has mentioned hygiene as the basis of cure, and has great pleasure in announcing that a portion of land has been procured, and applied for materially enlarging arid beautifying the grounds of the females. These patients had previously passed too much of their time in in-door and sedentary occupation. It has been ascertained in this house, that a free range in the open air is often remedial in cases of maniacal violence; a treatment remarkably confirmed by the practice of the great rural depot for lunatics in the Netherlands; a system utterly at variance with preconceived English notions, with the solitary exception of the late self-taught Bakewell of Spring Vale in Staffordshire ; and certainly the very opposite to confinement in dark and padded rooms, or the use of instrumental restraint. June 21 st, 1852. E. Ff. BROMHEAD, V. P.
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