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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    be a very uncommon circumstance, it had perhaps never occurred before, but he had seen it and was persuaded of its reality. On enquiry I found that, about eighteen years before, he had been attacked with insanity in London, and had walked to his parish in the neighbourhood of Brentford : the parish offi¬ cers, perceiving his condition, had confined him during some months in the workhouse, where he continued in a very violent state. Of this however he retained not the slightest re¬ collection, the two circumstances, of putting the com into the ground, and the harvest, appeared to him successive from the absence of any impression from intermediate occur¬ rences. How much soever a medical practitioner jnay court the reputation of benevolence, how¬ ever he may be averse to confinement, he must nevertheless consider that his professional cha-