A treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity / by I. Ray ; with an introductory essay by D. Spillan.

  • Isaac Ray
Date:
1839
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Credit: A treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity / by I. Ray ; with an introductory essay by D. Spillan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King's College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE. Few, probably, whose attention has not been particularly directed to the subject, are aware, how far the condition of the law relative to in- sanity IS behind the present state of our know- ledge concerning that disease. While so much lias_ been done, within a comparatively short period, to promote the comfort of the insane and so much improvement has been effected in the methods of treating their disorder, as to have deprived it of half its terrors, it is both a curious and a melancholy fact, that so little has been accomphshed towards regulating their perso^a^ and social rights, by more correct^and enhghte^^^^^^ ' While natfons are Si . M-l^''^^^ excellence of their rfn f''^^T accommodation of this unfortunate class of our fellow-men and fen^TJ^^^^P^^^^^^^^^ ^«fn\ TffP^^^ proportion of cures, we re- main perfectly satisfied with the wisdom of our Te^i~TW ^^^^n^-f-lative to their le^ relations. This, no doubt, is mainly the faTilf iriner'] ' P^^tl^^^W and therapeutics. M offthr '''' ^'^'^ ^^^^^^^^^ this branch of it has always received a share of atten-
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