Considerations on the moral management of insane persons.

  • John Haslam
Date:
1817
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    tient. The necessity of restraint, as a mean of cure, is most satisfactorily illustrated from the confession of those who have recovered, and who possess a recollection of their disor¬ dered state. When such persons have been asked, to what circumstances they especially attributed their recovery, they have in general deposed that when they found themselves effectually restrained from fulfilling the dic¬ tates of their will, they then became enlight- ✓ ened by a gleam of reflection, and ceased to obey the impulse which prompted them. KEEPERS. When a person becomes affected with mad¬ ness, and displays so much fury that those of his family are unable to restrain him; and after medical opinion has pronounced him to be insane, it is the ordinary practice to place