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Credit: Elements of the pathology of the human mind / by Thomas Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and if it succeed, is very prompt in its relief of mental uneasiness. A system of mental discipline] is of slow operation. Between the two systems, there is however this important difiFerence; that the one has no necessary connection with the formation of a habit of self-control; while the other essentially involves it. The quaint author of Clarissa Harlowe, puts before us the convertible nature of mental and medical influences even in producing a given physical state, when he represents Lovelace as having recourse to a dose of ipecacuanha in order to obtain the wan and disconsolate appearance of unrequited love. And it would require the pen of Montague, or of our own Burton, to tell us, without unbecoming levity, in how man}- cases of escaped madness the regulation of the state of the bowels has at some critical moment been preservative ;—or again, how ofteu this disorder has arisen from the corresponding neglect. Still the deliberate adoption of precautionary measures, whether of a mental or of a physical kind, against insanity, is somewhat repugnant to our feelings. Men do not like to consider them- selves obnoxious to this disorder. The assurance that there is no insanity in a given family](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21292012_0122.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
