Considerations on the moral management of insane persons.

  • John Haslam
Date:
1817
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    different mode of treatment, and to apply the moral regimen with greater effect. The state of violent mania, especially at its com¬ mencement, requires the prompt and conti¬ nued application of competent medical treat¬ ment, and adequate restraint, until the violence of the paroxysm has been subdued : but the state of tranquillity which has been produced often leaves the patient in an equal state of intellectual derangement, although the passions which accompanied the paroxysm have subsided. These are the different states implied by the terms active and passive. The same distinction applies to Melancholia. In the active state of this form of the disease, the patient seeks to destroy himself by every contrivance, is in a restless and hurried con¬ dition, and incapable of confining his atten¬ tion, which renders restraint unavoidable for his personal safety: but this, after proper , « medical treatment, subsides into a settled