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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    CONFINEMENT. Man is the only being that appears to be fendered unhappy by confinement. Many animals will pine when secluded; this, how¬ ever, does not seem to result from any reflec¬ tion on the miseries of seclusion, but from the want of air, necessary exercise, or particular food. From long established practice, there has been an usual association between Being Mad, and confinement in a Madhouse. That insanity is a disease, which for its cure, and also for the prevention of mischief, ordi¬ narily requires seclusion, must be admitted; and in many instances, that persons so con¬ fined, enjoy a larger portion of comfort than they could attain by being at large is equally