A letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftesbury etc. etc. etc. on the laws which regulate private lunatic asylums : with a comparative view of the process 'de lunatico inquirendo' in England and the law of 'interdiction' in France : to which are added a few observations on the causes of insanity and improvement in its treatment during the last twenty-five years / by Edward J. Seymour.

Seymour, Edward J. (Edward James), 1796-1866.

Date:: 1859

Credit: A letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftesbury etc. etc. etc. on the laws which regulate private lunatic asylums : with a comparative view of the process 'de lunatico inquirendo' in England and the law of 'interdiction' in France : to which are added a few observations on the causes of insanity and improvement in its treatment during the last twenty-five years / by Edward J. Seymour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$apothecary, ex. gra. being a Fellow of the Royal College of Phy- sicians in London'], and being in actual practice as a [^physician, surgeon, or apothecary, as the case may be], hereby certify, tliat I, on the day of 1859, at [/jere insert the street and !\o. of the house (if any] or other like particulars], in the county separately from any other medical practitioner personally examined of ^insert residence and profession or occupation, if any], a \_state occupation of patient], and that the said is a lunatic, and a proper person to be taken charge of, and detained under care and treatment: and that I have formed this opinion upon the following gi’ounds, viz.:—1. Facts indicating insanity, observed by myself \here state the facts]. 2. Other facts (if any) indicating insanity, communicated to me by others \_here state the information, and from whom]. (Signed) Place of abode Dated this day of 1859. An agreement as follows, must be signed by two substantial house- keepers before the patient can be admitted:— Whereas a lunatic is about to be or has been this day received as a patient into the hospital established for lunatics, known by the name of Saint Luke’s Hospital, on our jointly and severally promising and agreeing to remove and take away the said patient on being required so to do, in manner herein- after mentioned; Now we whose names are hereunder written, do hereby jointly and severally promise and agree that we, or one of us, shall and will forthwith at our or one of our costs and charges, after we, or either of us, shall be thereto required, by notice in Avriting, to be signed by the secretary for the time being of the said hospital, remove and take away the said from the said hospital ; and in default thereof, we jointly and severally$

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