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The chief point of interest in the subject to which this chapter has reference, centres in the questions where and what was the provision made for the insane in England at the earliest period in which we can discover traces or their custody? Ma...
Conclusion
In completing the task which the author has attempted in the foregoing chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles, he is only too conscious that, in the endeavour to be concise as well as comprehensive, he has made many omissions. ...
Course Of Lunacy Legislation
I now resume the thread of my history at the time of the exposure of the abuses at the old York Asylum. We have already intimated that the treatment adopted at the Retreat, and made known to the public by various writers and by many visitors, bu...
Eighteenth-century Asylums Foundation Of The York Retreat
There were in England, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, private asylums for the insane, the beneficial treatment pursued in which was loudly vaunted in the public ear; but I am afraid the success was not equal to the promise or the boas...
Ireland
I have already spoken of the singular tradition which for so long a period invested the Glen-na-galt, near Tralee, with the character of possessing healing virtues in madness. The change which in our practical age has taken place in Kerry, by the ...
Lincoln And Hanwell Progress Of Reform In The Treatment Of The Insane From 1844 To The Present Time
Before presenting official evidence of the gradual progress in the condition of the insane in England, we must interpose in our history a brief reference to the development of what every one knows as the non-restraint system of treating the insane...
Medical And Superstitious Treatment Of The Insane In The Olden Time
Among our Saxon ancestors the treatment of the insane was a curious compound of pharmacy, superstition, and castigation. Demoniacal possession was fully believed to be the frequent cause of insanity, and, as is well known, exorcism was practised b...
Our Chancery Lunatics
Of the relations of lunatics to that Court which Dickens describes as having its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, its worn-out lunatic in every mad-house, and its dead in every churchyard, we must briefly speak, and in many r...
Our Criminal Lunatics Broadmoor
No one at the present day is likely to underrate the importance and interest of the subject of this chapter. An Act was passed in regard to criminal lunatics in the year 1800 (39 and 40 Geo. III., c. 94). It was partially repealed in 1838 (1 and...
Our Idiots And Imbeciles
Attention has of late been freshly drawn to this unfortunate class. We propose in this chapter to give some particulars respecting their past history, their numbers, their location, and the claims, not yet sufficiently recognized, which they have ...
Progress Of Psychological Medicine During The Last Forty Years 1841 And 1881
If, gentlemen, History be correctly defined as Philosophy teaching by examples, I do not know that I could take any subject for my Address more profitable or fitting than the Progress of Psychological Medicine during the forty years which, expirin...
Scotland
Our reference in a previous chapter to the singular superstitions connected with the treatment of the insane in Scotland, renders it unnecessary to do more than point out in this place the substratum of popular opinion and feeling, upon which the ...
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Our Idiots And Imbeciles
Ireland
Eighteenth-century Asylums Foundation Of The York Retreat
Lincoln And Hanwell Progress Of Reform In The Treatment Of The Insane From 1844 To The Present Time
Bethlem Hospital And St Luke's
Medical And Superstitious Treatment Of The Insane In The Olden Time
Scotland
Course Of Lunacy Legislation
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Our Chancery Lunatics
Our Criminal Lunatics Broadmoor
Progress Of Psychological Medicine During The Last Forty Years 1841 And 1881
Course Of Lunacy Legislation
Scotland
Medical And Superstitious Treatment Of The Insane In The Olden Time
Bethlem Hospital And St Luke's