Practical observations and suggestions on the treatment of mental affections / [Joseph Seaton].

  • Seaton, Joseph
Date:
1846
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Credit: Practical observations and suggestions on the treatment of mental affections / [Joseph Seaton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fears; and, at the same time, I shall perhaps have saved an affectionate relative the pang arising from the conviction, that, by his precipitation and want of judgment, he has perhaps contributed to render recovery hopeless ;*■—and, more than all, I may perhaps venture to hope that I may have been the means of preserving to a fellow creature “ the best gift of God.” * I am acquainted with the case of a young- lady, who has been insane several years. When the malady first appeared she was sent to an Asylum in the country, where Ignorance appears to have been the chief superintendent. She left it a confirmed lunatic.—She now frequently tells her mother, (who is an affectionate parent and a most excellent woman,) “ Ah! I know I am mad now; but I should have been well if you had not sent me to. They made me mad! ” In any case, it would be painful to a parent to be so addressed ; but, in this case, the misery is enhanced by the conviction that it is probably but too true. Halliford House, May, 1846. Printed by E. Couchman, 10, Throgmorton Street, London
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