Observations on the management of madhouses, illustrated by occurrences in the West Riding and Middlesex Asylums / by Caleb Crowther.

Date:
1838
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Credit: Observations on the management of madhouses, illustrated by occurrences in the West Riding and Middlesex Asylums / by Caleb Crowther. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    we shall still have sufficient evidence that insanity materially contributes to shorten life. A power of appeal or reference to some stand- ard work, in such a case, would materially assist the court. The onus probandi would then rest with the propounder of new and absurd opinions. Witnesses ought to have a power of appealing to some work on medical jurisprudence and on in- sanity, in order to enable them to substantiate their testimony. Great improvement might be made in the treatment of the insane in this country, by appoint- ing a talented middle-aged Pysician, who has had some experience in the disease, to travel over Europe, to visit all the most distinguished foreign Asylums, and to report the result of his observa- tions on every subject connected with the manage- ment of Asylums and the treatment of the insane.