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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    OBSERVATIONS, &c. CHAPTER I. INTItODUCTION. Et mihi res, non me rebus, submittere conor. Anxious to communicate, to those who have the power of improving the management of the Insane, the observations which I have made, at home and abroad, during a long life spent in extensive public and private practice, and during my visits to many institutions for the Insane, I have endeavoured to arrange under separate heads, the topics which have most strongly arrested my attention. We do not yet possess sufficient data to enable us to write a complete Essay on Madhouses; we are very deficient in statistical details, and we are not thoroughly acquainted with all the improve- ments which have been made in foreign countries. This empire has not taken the lead in improving A