Twenty-eighth annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 19th June, 1848 with the report of the medical officers.

Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics

Date:: 1848

Credit: Twenty-eighth annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 19th June, 1848 with the report of the medical officers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$treatment Gauges. 17. Is the patient subject to periodical attacks of any other malady; to any unusual discharge, or to sup¬ pression or obstruction of any customary discharge; to sores, eruptions, rupture, epilepsy, or palsy? Specify any bodily infirmity or disease of the patient; also the present state of bodily health, as to desire for food, functions of stomach, bowels, kidneys, respi¬ ration, pulse, and state of skin, &c. » 18. Did the present fit of lunacy occur, or has any former fit occurred, during pregnancy; or appear to have been connected with the puerperal state or lactation ? If a female, state whether she has born children, their number, and the period of the birth of the last ? t 19. Was the head of the patient ever severely injured? 20. What is supposed to have been the exciting cause of the malady ? Is it a moral cause—such as mis¬ fortune, disappointment, fright, love, &c. ? Or a physical cause—such as fever, the immoderate use of opium or other medicine, or any intoxicat¬ ing agent, bodily injury, serious \ illness, or accident affecting the \ nervous system, Sec.? ^21. What has been done for the re¬ covery of the patient ? And with what effect ? 22. Has the patient ever been treated for lunacy in any public asylum or private retreat for the insane ? If so, how often, and how long on each occasion, has the patient been in any such establishment? When, in what state, and if not cured, for what reason was the ^ patient dismissed? ’ 1 --—---— 23. What is the proposed rate of board ? j Signed,$

Twenty-eighth annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 19th June, 1848 with the report of the medical officers.

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