A Letter Addressed to the Chairman of the Select Committee of the House of Commons: Appointed to Enquire Into the State of Mad-houses; to which is Subjoined Remarks on the Nature, Causes, and Cure of Mental DerangementChester, 1815 - 100 Seiten |
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... fact , that in many instances the person of the unfortunate sufferer is made a victim to the nefarious possession of the property ; and though a Statute of Lunacy does recognize a right in the object of it , yet matters are frequently ...
... fact , that in many instances the person of the unfortunate sufferer is made a victim to the nefarious possession of the property ; and though a Statute of Lunacy does recognize a right in the object of it , yet matters are frequently ...
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... fact , that no en- quiries were ever made after some of the Lunatics , who lost their lives at the late fire in York Asylum , by their relations . I lately saw a very fine looking young Woman in a most deplorable state of ma- niacal ...
... fact , that no en- quiries were ever made after some of the Lunatics , who lost their lives at the late fire in York Asylum , by their relations . I lately saw a very fine looking young Woman in a most deplorable state of ma- niacal ...
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... man is an homogeneous mass of mind and body , that what we term mental diseases , are , in fact , corporeal diseases , and that every corporeal disease must pro- duce mental disease ; I grant that every corporeal disease 28.
... man is an homogeneous mass of mind and body , that what we term mental diseases , are , in fact , corporeal diseases , and that every corporeal disease must pro- duce mental disease ; I grant that every corporeal disease 28.
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... facts , that the power or faculty of the mind , by which we are enabled to judge of the correctness of our own thoughts , is suspended ; but the most common symptom is the excess of action in the thinking principle ; the Patient being ...
... facts , that the power or faculty of the mind , by which we are enabled to judge of the correctness of our own thoughts , is suspended ; but the most common symptom is the excess of action in the thinking principle ; the Patient being ...
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... fact , he was turned from his bloody thoughts , by a train of opposite conceptions , that were occasioned by the sight of a beautiful and fascinating woman ; and the fair Abigail was only so far indebted to the powers of wisdom , that ...
... fact , he was turned from his bloody thoughts , by a train of opposite conceptions , that were occasioned by the sight of a beautiful and fascinating woman ; and the fair Abigail was only so far indebted to the powers of wisdom , that ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admitted afflicted ancient Egypt Anticyra appeared attended BAKEWELL best means Bethlem betwixt bodily disease bowels brought capital punishment cause certainly chance of recovery complaint conceptions of thought convalescence costive curable curative despondency disorder doubt dreadful Epsom Salts excitement expense female frequently friends habit of body increased nervous incurable Lunatics injury instance Jalap Keeper keeping labour lucid intervals Luke's Lunacy maniacal married means of recovery medicine melancholy mental derangement mental disease Methodists mind months dead months recovered recovered months remains moral treatment never opinion P.
R. 2 months Parish paroxysms particular Patients Phrenetic Insanity port wine private Mad Houses proper Public Asylums purges rational impression raving reason relations removed restraint sanity scorbutic Scurvy single Spring Vale strait waistcoat symptoms temperate thing tion train of thoughts twelve months violent visionary thoughts warm bath weeks recovered
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 35 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Seite 35 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns ; To him no high, no low, no great, no small : He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Seite 36 - My brain I'll prove the female to my soul ; My soul the father: and these two beget A generation of still breeding thoughts...
Seite 12 - ... sacred associations, that it is very difficult to eradicate or remove them. So recently as 1815, Mr. Bakewell mentions the instance of a parent, who insisted that no means of recovery should be used for her son, who was in a state of...
Seite 35 - God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul," she can explain to her children that this makes the difference between man and the cattle.
Seite 95 - ... his own natural character, viz. that of a bold profligate, with no more religion than the bird that bears his name (Swan.) I wish he had been a Methodist; for in that case I should have hope, that he would some time find grace enough to pay me my charge; but as it is, I have no hopes. I have often asserted...
Seite 94 - At the end of the pamphlet are several interesting, and somewhat instructive cases ; ihe last of which, with his own remarks upon it, we shall lay before our readers. — ' In the early part of a morning, before daylight, I was awoke by a loud knocking at the door ; and upon going to the window, I saw by the light of the moon, a man upon his knees in very loud prayer that the Lord Jesus would scud down his grace upon the master of that house and all his family.
Seite 95 - ... poor father; he left some little property behind him, and we had some very unpleasant disputes; I have, too, drunk hard, and the people said I was going mad; but bless the Lord, they were mistaken, for I was never so well in my life as now. Coming home upon one of the coaches, a voice came to me, and bid me go forth and preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus; I began to pray, and I got off at the village below, and have been praying for the dear souls of the people.
Seite 9 - Large Public Asylums for the Insane, are certainly wrong, upon system ; for nothing can be more calculated to .prevent recovery, from a state of Insanity, than the horrors of a large Mad House, close confinement, and a state of idleness in the company of incurable Lunatics.
Seite 95 - Jesus, break my bonds asunder," accompanied with all the efforts in his power; but these not succeeding, he became calm again for a while. For two days, he was the most part visionary; but using all my efforts to remove his complaint, he seemed quite recovered on the fourth day, and appeared in his own natural character, viz. that of a bold profligate, with no more religion than the bird that bears his name...