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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    still more lamentable truth that many of these pretenders possess a sturdiness which never ♦ shrinks at error, and disdains to be corrected by the disasters of experiment. My profes¬ sional brethren, whose knowledge is useful and unassuming, whose habits of investigation are patient; whose practice is a series of max¬ ims to repress hypothesis, and curb the wild¬ ness of imagination, will I trust excuse my endeavour to demonstrate, for the progression of science and the advancement of humanity, that the disorders of the intellect are the peculiar and exclusive province of the medical practitioner. JOHN HASLAM. 51, Frith Street, Soho, Atli December, 1816. • r