Observations on the importance in purchases of land, or mercantile adventures, of ascertaining the rates or laws of mortality among Europeans, by chronic diseases and hot climates : on the data necessary for constructing tables to show the probable duration of a disease : illustrations of the progress of mania, melancholia, craziness, & demonomania, as displayed in Shakespeare's characters of Lear, Hamlet, Ophelia, and Edgar : on the comparative danger of first and subsequent child-births : with an appendix, containing the form of a deed for establishing a joint-stock company, without requiring the aid of Parliament, or the incumbrance of an Act to sue and be sued / by George Farren.

  • Farren, George.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on the importance in purchases of land, or mercantile adventures, of ascertaining the rates or laws of mortality among Europeans, by chronic diseases and hot climates : on the data necessary for constructing tables to show the probable duration of a disease : illustrations of the progress of mania, melancholia, craziness, & demonomania, as displayed in Shakespeare's characters of Lear, Hamlet, Ophelia, and Edgar : on the comparative danger of first and subsequent child-births : with an appendix, containing the form of a deed for establishing a joint-stock company, without requiring the aid of Parliament, or the incumbrance of an Act to sue and be sued / by George Farren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    sequent on that marriage. These circumstances, operating suddenly on a mind predisposed to gaiety and to the follies which spring from youth- ful effervescence, give a tinge of melancholy to his tmin of thought which speedily but impercepti- bly produces an instability of intellect. Whilst thus suffering from mental depression the suspi- cion of his father's murder induces him to put on an antic disposition, that, under colour of madness, he may be less liable to scrutiny and more free scope he thereby afforded for the measures he shall take to arrive at full conviction. From this period he strives to wipe from the table of his memory all trivial fond records that youth and observation copied there, except as those pressures may tend to the accomplishment of his object j and thus, in cherishing a favourite design, and permitting the ghost's Commandment all alone to live, Within the book and volume of his brain, Uninixed with baser matter, lie gives growth and maturity to a malady, the seeds of which had germinated in his mind, until in the end he actually labours under the infirr mity which his previous declaration shows he but intended to feign. J - Here it may be proper to observe, that feigning madness is frequently a favourite theory with in- sane persons. Soon after the second marriage of his mother,