Eighth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from 1st January to the end of the year 1855.

  • Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Eighth report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from 1st January to the end of the year 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Epileptics, determined resistance against taking food for some days pre¬ vious to her admission and during her residence of three months in the asylum, she was also restless and slept but little, and sunk gradually and died* from exhaustion. The body was excessively wasted and only weighed 50 lbs. The number of epileptics under treatment this year ha& been 06 males and 35 females, one male not belonging to the county was transferred to another asylum, and 9 died, leaving males and o2 females of this class, now in the house. The average number of fits amongst the males and females has een nearly equal, 22 per cent of the fits in the males occurr- G(r+L aJ.ln^e Pat]fnt, the same as last year; and 16 per cent o the fits m the females in one patient who at one time re¬ mained free from fits for two years after taking the tincture of sumbul after her second admission in the early part of last year, this drug ceased to be of any use to her, and she now has fits more frequently than any other female patient. Most fits occurred in the two last quarters both in males and fe- ilia es, he fits by night were a third more frequent in the males than m the females; and the fits by day were more than twice as frequent as the fits by night in the males, and more an thiee tunes as frequent as the fits by night in the females. The tables which follow shew the number of fits which occurred during the day and night in each month of the year. The letters in italics mark those who died.