Considerations on the moral management of insane persons.

  • John Haslam
Date:
1817
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Credit: Considerations on the moral management of insane persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rated, by medical assistance, and the tran¬ quillity which succeeds may be occupied by the establishment of habits which conduce to regularity of conduct. When a medical practitioner is called to attend an insane person he ought to endeavour, first, to restore the patient to sanity of mind, and where this cannot be effected, to render his situation as agreeable as the nature of his malady will permit, and his circumstances can procure. It is nowr sufficiently understood, and my own experience adds abundant confirmation, that the chance of a patient’s recovery is in¬ creased by his being subjected to medical treatment at the commencement of his dis¬ order. Of late, however, it has been seriously proposed, in a great degree to remove both the medical treatment and moral management of insane persons from the care of Physicians, and to transfer this important and responsible department of medicine into the hands of