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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    liar aspect which marks an insane person, and which would considerably influence my own judgment in pronouncing on the state ot his mind, more especially as such impression has never been delusive. It is not in the general look or appearance of the person, but becomes developed during an attentive examination into the state of his intellect, particularly where he has entertained an unfounded aver¬ sion to certain persons, or where a morbid resentment lurks in the recesses of his mind: it is a sudden emanation which glances forth, the patient himself appears conscious of its escape, and instantly suppresses it. The expe¬ rienced practitioner will, in quick succession, become sensible of the two perceptions, resem¬ bling the transitory glimpse of an ignis fatuus which flashes and expires. Under the article of confinement a very curious and important enquiry might be insti- t