INSANITY:
ITS CAUSES AND PREVENTION
BY
HENRY PUTNAM STEARNS, M.D.
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, HARTFORD, CONN.; LECTURER
ON INSANITY IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF YALE COLLEGE,
ETC., ETC.
| “It is the mynde that makes good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore.” Spenser—Faerie Queene, Book XI, Canto IX. |
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
27 & 29 WEST 23D STREET
1883
Copyright by
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
1883
Press of
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York
TO
JOHN SIBBALD, M.D., F.R.S.E.,
COMMISSIONER IN LUNACY FOR SCOTLAND, IN PLEASANT
REMEMBRANCE OF A PORTION OF OUR STUDENT-LIFE
PASSED TOGETHER, THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED
WITH SINCERE REGARD BY HIS FRIEND,
THE AUTHOR.
It is something more than two years since I read a paper, entitled “TheInsane Diathesis,” at a meeting of the Connecticut Medical Society. Thenumerous requests received for copies of that article have led me to thinkthat something more in detail in relation to the prevention of insanitymight be desired by the reading public both lay and professional. Hencethis little book. It has not been written for specialists exclusively,though it is hoped it will not prove wholly uninteresting to them, butrather for those in the general practice of medicine, educators, and themore intelligent lay members of society.
It has been written during odd snatches of time and with manyinterruptions, so that there exists less uniformity of style than therewould otherwise be. Moreover, some of the subjects presented have beendiscussed by me in papers which have already been published. These papers,however, so far as they have been introduced into this work, have beenrewritten, and, it is thought, improved.
H. P. S.
Hartford, Dec., 1882.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| PRELIMINARY. | |
| PAGE. | |
| Increase of interest in the subject of insanity, resulting from, first, more intelligent views concerning its nature; and, second, theobligation to make provision for the care of the insane in a larger measure than for other unfortunate classes—Resultsin the way of hospitals—Asylum attendants—Change in the modes of management, and care of the insane | 3 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
INCREASE OF INSANITY.... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |