Considerations on the moral management of insane persons.

  • John Haslam
Date:
1817
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Considerations on the moral management of insane persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m if, in the warm season, flies annoy him, he cannot drive them away, and if, from the neg¬ ligence of the keeper, his person should be infested with other insects, he must submit to their painful vexation: and it is always at the discretion of the keeper how tightly he may chuse to tie it. When several lunatics are confined in a room together, the strait-waist¬ coat is of little security, as it may be unloosed by any patient whose hands are at liberty, and I have known several ingenious maniacs who alone have been able to extricate them¬ selves from it. It should also be kept in view that a single keeper will have the utmost dif¬ ficulty in applying the strait-waistcoat if the patient be refractory, he will then be unable to effect his purpose without his most forcible efforts: and should his temper become ex¬ asperated in the contest, it is more than pro¬ bable he will have recourse to undue advan- tages.