Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends : containing an account of its origin and progress, the modes of treatment, and a statement of cases / By Samuel Tuke. With an elevation and plans of the building.

Samuel Tuke

Date:: 1813

Credit: Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends : containing an account of its origin and progress, the modes of treatment, and a statement of cases / By Samuel Tuke. With an elevation and plans of the building. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Medicine Consequent humane direction of the Physician Of the use of the Warm Bath in Melancholia In Mania Use of Cold Bath in a case of high Importance of attention to the general health of the Mode of using it Mania Insane Frequent extraordinary sympathy between body and mind in this class of persons Advantage of attention to the bodily health of Convalescents Use of topical bleeding on the approach of a paroxysm Necessity, of close individual attention to Patients, an argument against large Establish- Mode practised at ments the Retreat Difficulty of obtaining sleep Want of discrimination in the medical treat- ment of Insanity Remarks on the practice of Bethlem Hospital Of mortifications of the extremities from cold or confinement Of the capacity of Maniacs to bear cold. Of Diet Usual bill of fare Of the antiphlogistic system Doubt respecting the Diet of the Retreat Of the Beneficial effects of air capacity of Maniacs to bear hunger ONG CLEPCises WO Ns ae sve obs od bdo ne « Se wieseee \/Page 109-130, CHAPTER V.—=-MORAL TREATMENT. SECTION L~—INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. Power Importance of Management in a curative point of view of self-control possessed by Maniacs The disorder generally partial, in regard to both the intellectual powers and affections ——Of the malevolent dispositions evinced by Maniacs Practices of the Powerful effect of judicious kindness Retreat arranged under three heads. o+++2+++ Page 131—138.$