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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    of reformation, these powerful and adventur¬ ous spirits have the magnanimity to depreciate experience; flushed with hope, and confident of untried speculation, they nobly press for¬ ward to surmount the obstacles of nature. Sometimes, indeed, it has been the fate of these bold and costly projects to involve their I authors in ruin and disgrace, and the land which was ordered to flow with milk and honey has remained a dreary waste—a deso¬ late monument of folly and expense. Meta¬ physics or the physiology of intelligent beings, afford the choicest fuel for an ardent imagi¬ nation, and like the Grecian combustible when once kindled must burn out, for it cannot be extinguished. There is something so interest¬ ing, and to appearance so dignified, in the contemplation of the human mind, and its disorders, that most persons, who have not received a medical education, have been fully persuaded, they could arrange and compose it in its utmost slate of distraction; but it is a