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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    racter is in a great degree responsible tor the conduct of the person liberated bj his advice. The fatal instances are too numerous and too lamentable to repeat, where the craftiness and dissimulation of the lunatic have been supe¬ rior to the sagacity of the Physician. It has occurred to me in many instances to witness a relapse, in consequence of the patient being too early allowed his liberty, either by the interference of his friends, whose hopes are too frequently the foundation of their judgment, or by the medical practitioner too readily complying with the importunities of the pa¬ tient. To state the length of time which ought to elapse before the patient should be allowed to be entirely his own master, after he becomes convalescent, or even apparently restored to reason, is impossible. Much de¬ pends on the nature of his disorder, and on his propensity to mischief, during the time he continued under its influence; his natural