Considerations on the moral management of insane persons.

  • John Haslam
Date:
1817
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Considerations on the moral management of insane persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/88 (page 11)
    gloom: life, indeed, continues to be irksome, but is sustained by the residuary glimmer¬ ings of Philosophy or Religion. It is in the passive state of both forms of this disease where moral discipline can be most effectually administered. To every man possessing ex¬ perience of this disorder, it is a well-known fact, that in the passive state, many may be usefully, and to themselves pleasingly employ¬ ed, although they labour under a lamentable degree of mental derangement. Some of these persons it is perhaps impossible to cure; but they may be much amended, and cer¬ tainly enabled to partake of greater comforts than they have hitherto been permitted to enjoy. Every thing which can tend to accu¬ mulate and diffuse human happiness should be anxiously sought, and cultivated with care. * Great attention ought to be given, both