Considerations on the moral management of insane persons.

  • John Haslam
Date:
1817
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    ation, good sense, and above all the experience of the practitioner must decide. Perhaps there is no general rule more certain tojudge of the recovery of a patient, than his being sensible of the delusion under which he has laboured, and his sincere renunciation of the erroneous opinions which constituted his disease ; but even to this there are occasional exceptions. The first delusive impressions on the mind are often so vivid and enduring that they are never afterwards effaced, although the subse. quent hallucinations have subsided. Of this I remember a very remarkable instance in an, elderly man, whose conduct was uniformly cor-, rect, whose temper was mild, and whose mind appeared sound on all subjects but one. He pertinaciously insisted he had seen the corn sown as he passed some particular fields, and on returning, three ox four days afterwards, it had grown to maturity, and he found the farmers reaping it. He acknowledged it to D