The necessity for some legalised arrangements for the treatment of dipsomania, or the drinking insanity / by Alexander Peddie.

  • Peddie, Alexander, 1810-1907
Date:
1858
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Credit: The necessity for some legalised arrangements for the treatment of dipsomania, or the drinking insanity / by Alexander Peddie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    UNCONTROLLABLE DESIRE FOR STIMULANTS ; and that when in- dulged in beyond a certain limit, in consequence of some peculiarity of constitution or cerebral condition from injury or disease, an out- break of furious madness occurs, which places in hazard any one, or every one, within reach. Ok, application might be made to the Superintendent of an authorised establishment, or to any licensed Asylum in the county for pro tempore care in the case of great urgency, where delirium exists in any form from intoxication. Thus would cases of the Delirium Ebriosum and Delirium Tremens be at once properly cared for, and immediate danger to life and property avoided, without any formal legal warrant or certificate, Avhere such could not be accomplished in private without much inconvenience or danger. VI. The principal statements contained in applications for com- pulsory restraint should be attested to the Sheriff by witnesses acquainted with the facts, and by the medical attendant of the individual, if such there be, from what he knows and has personally observed. The Sheriif should also in all cases requii'e an opinion from another medical practitioner appointed by himself; and he should then transmit the evidence in writing to the before-mentioned IT) Board of Direction of the district in which the case occurs, Avith as little delay as possible, and with these forward the indi\adual to be restrained if the case seems one of urgency. VII. On the Board being satisfied from the statements furnished to them of the necessity or desirableness of restraint being imposed, for the protection of property or life, the good of the community, or for the recovery of the individual, they should notify their opinion to the Sheriff, in order that he may issue the necessary warrant or certificate, and see that it is canied into effect; and they should forthwith make arrangements in the establishment, over which they preside, for the reception of the patient, and thereafter be charged with his suitable care and comfort, and if possible his cure. VIII. The Board or Superintendent should not detain any person received into the Institution on account of an acute attack of delirium from intoxication longer than is absolutely necessary for complete recovery, unless with the consent of the individual; and in the ehi'oiiic forms of the disease—the true dipsomania, the}' should grant
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