Aphorisms on the treatment and management of the insane; with considerations on public and private lunatic asylums, pointing out the errors in the present system / By J.G. Millingen.

  • Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon), 1782-1862
Date:
1840
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Aphorisms on the treatment and management of the insane; with considerations on public and private lunatic asylums, pointing out the errors in the present system / By J.G. Millingen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    11/230
    INTRODUCTION. Numerous -works have been written on mental diseases, yet are they rarely read, excepting by those medical men who are more particularly engaged in the treatment of these affections, and unfortunately even by them with very little ad- vantage. Several of these publications are only remarkable for their authors’ ingenuity in meta- physical disquisitions and inquiries into the causation of causes, wandering through the intri- cate mazes of an interminable labyrinth, to ma- terialise the mind. Other treatises are merely verbose prospectuses of private establishments, and contain an ad captandum collection of cures. Fortunately for mankind, there are works of a much higher grade, in which the authors have conferred everlasting benefits on society. Such must be considered the labours of Haslam, b 3