Practical observations on insanity : in which some suggestions are offered towards an improved mode of treating diseases of the mind, and some rules proposed which it is hoped may lead to a more humane and successful method of cure ; to which are subjoined remarks on medical jurisprudence as connected with diseased intellect / by Joseph Mason Cox, M.D. ; from the second corrected and enlarged London edition.

  • Cox, Joseph Mason, 1762-1822.
Date:
1811
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    wishes, and by very simple management, both mind and body were at length perfectly re- stored, and I have the pleasure of knowing rhat he continues well, and I am confident owes his life and reason to the swing. CASE XX. Mr. , aged 25, of a full plethoric habit and sanguineous temperament, became sud- denly insane without any obvious cause; his case exhibited nothing new or interesting, being accompanied by the more common character- istic symptoms of mania furibunda, which at length yielded to a system, the rationale of which turned on the abstraction of stimuli; but I men- tion it as one in which the swing was repeat- edly employed as a moral mean, by way of punishment, and to induce a compliance with the remedies prescribed; and though there was a necessity for its repeated use, I never saw a patient more easily or powerfully affected by it, and though he always earnestly solicited for release and suffered so much, his obstinacy and perverseness were to be overcome by no other mean; his dread of the swing was extreme, and