Insanity, its causes, prevention, and cure : including apoplexy, epilepsy, and congestion of the brain / by Joseph Williams, M. D.

  • Williams, Joseph, 1814-1882
Date:
1852
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Credit: Insanity, its causes, prevention, and cure : including apoplexy, epilepsy, and congestion of the brain / by Joseph Williams, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Separation, seclusion. The admission of friends . . . 113 Advantage of such admission. Interesting case . . .116 Necessity of occupation in the open air . . . .116 The moral management of the patient, and conduct of the physician. 118 Treatment at home preferable to removal to any asylum . . 119 Classification, how necessary, how difficult . . .121 Criminal lunatics ; Lord Derby's definitions . . . 122 Non compos; irresponsibility. Necessary precautions in homicidal insanity . ...... 123 Awful case illustrating this necessity .... 124 Instinctive madness ; manie sans delire ; premeditation . . 125 Cases showing the instinctive wish ; its various degrees . , 127 Homicidal acts imitated; hints and cautions. Cases . .129 This irresistible impulse a stumbling-block to lawyers . . 131 Illustrations showing when confinement is essential . . 132 Advantages of the improved moral discipline . . .133 Insanity incapacitates for future service in army or navy. Cases . 135 Necessity of early treatment; much discretion requisite . , 136 On discharging a patient when presumed to be cured; cautions. Dreadful cases illustrating this . . . . .138 Prevention better than cure ..... 139 Intermarriage, its evils ; forcible instances proving this . .140 Idiots in Scotland. Insanity frequent amongst Jews and Quakers . 141 Constitutional predisposition ; hereditary tendency, how transmitted 143 Hereditary predisposition may be counteracted by education . 144 Self-possession, antipathies, calmly reasoning . . , 145 Fix the attention, mould the character .... 14.Q Investigate facts, compare them. History, Essays . . . 147 System for education of boys, how imperfect . . . ]48 Moral conduct and sentiment not educed from principle . . 149 The instructors and their pupils, their proper relative position . 150 Evils connected with the education of girls. Exercise . . 151 Envy, rivalry, idleness, procrastination, indecision, vanity . . 152 Love of fashion and dress, its evils • . . . 153 The errors of society. Contentment . . . .154 Theatres foster vain imaginations . . . . .155 Masquerades, gambling, precocious indulgence . . .156
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