Sixth annual report of the directors and physician of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics. 1832.

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics
Date:
1833
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sixth annual report of the directors and physician of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics. 1832. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    9/20 (page 9)
    only thing which had been clone for him, was to give him certain simple medicines. His wrists and ancles were cut and lacerated by the ropes with which he had been tied, and his back and other parts of his body, bruised with his struggles and violence. He was in a state of distinct raging mania without one lucid idea. He raved incessantly about ships, negroes, and assaults from various quarters, and was constantly roaring, and screaming— night and day. Although a robust young man, he had become thin and emaciated, from the violence of the disease, and his own smugglings, and exertions. Still it was ne¬ cessary to do something to subdue the ma¬ lady, else it was obvious it must soon subdue him. The remedies applied gradually over¬ came the extreme turbulence of the disease ; yet so easily was he excited, that for months he had to be kept in a room by himself, or (when the weather permitted) in one of the airing yards by himself. Even when thus iso¬ lated, if any of the other patients gave a loud cry, it unhinged this poor fellow as much as ever. By a continued application of the same means, and keeping him perfectly quiet, in the space of nine months he completely recov¬ ered, and left the Asylum in June last. He continues quite well up to this date. Up¬ on his recovery he recollected every thing B