DETENTION OF ALLEGED LUNATICS.

Advocacy or folly: the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society, 1845-63.

Throughout its history, the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Societyl attracted gratuitous abuse from the popular press and medical journals. It failed to mobilize public support and was constantly treated with disdain by those authorities responsible for the care and treatment of lunatics. Nevertheless, it made a substantial contribution to patients' rights and in many other respects was a distinguish...

Idiots, Imbeciles, and Harmless Lunatics

In the previous number of the Journal (page 96) it is stated that ten years ago it was suggested that the five southwestern counties of England should unite and form a separate establishment for the care, training, and education of the imbeciles and younger idiots, such as that at Earlswood, in Surrey. The practical reasons adduced for the division and separation is that the association with ep...

Lunatics, Idiots, and Cretins in France

Provision for pauper lunatics 1834-1871.

IN England attention given to the problem of the insane was reluctant and spasmodic, and scandals of the eighteenth century were left to flourish almost unchecked until 1827, when a prominent parliamentary Committee of Inquiry revealed the disgusting and cruel state of affairs.2 As a result of subsequent agitation two Acts were passed in 1828, one to regulate the care and treatment of the insan...

Alleged Infectiousness of Malaria

report on Kala-Azar ; but, after reading the article through, I fail, save on one important particular, to find any facts or arguments not already advanced in his original report. These arguments have already been crushingly refuted on the various articles, editorial and communicated, that have already appeared in your own medical journal, and to repeat this refutation, as Captain Rogers has re...