The care and treatment of the insane in private dwellings / [Lionel Alexander Weatherly].

  • Weatherly, Lionel A. (Lionel Alexander), 1852-
Date:
1882
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Credit: The care and treatment of the insane in private dwellings / [Lionel Alexander Weatherly]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tive little book, “The Insane in Private Dvvellin by Dr. Arthur Mitchell—to whom I must offer my grateful thanks for much information and kindness— that he is of opinion, which he considers must be very generally received, that “ all great aggregations of permanently diseased minds is an evil, which as much as possible should be avoided, as their tendency is undoubtedly to lower and degrade each constituent member of the mass.” I am fully aware of the fact that mental ill-health is the greatest leveller we have ; yet at the same time it must be admitted, that there are in all asy- lums, cases upon which the presence of other lunatics must have a most depress- ing and miserable effect, and the scenes so often unwillingly witnessed must be held in life-long remembrance.