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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    tuted, namely, how far the establishment of the numerous and extensive receptacles for the insane in/ this country has contributed to propagate and multiply this disorder. Before the pure spirit of benevolence and Christian piety devised the foundation of charitable - institutions for lunatics, these miserable ob¬ jects were allowed to wander, and considered as interdicted persons—when they became troublesome or offensive they were whipt from tything to tything, and stockt, punished and imprisoned. The enlightened commisera¬ tion of modem philanthropists has afforded them every protection, as the existing public and private asylums sufficiently evince. In these receptacles numbers are temporarily secluded who apparently recover, and after¬ wards form matrimonial alliances, or if al¬ ready married, return to their families. The minute investigation of many hundred cases has fully satisfied my own mind that the off-