Testing Equality: Insanity, Treatment Refusal and the CRPD

Drug treatment refusal and length of hospitalization of insanity acquittees.

Thirty-three insanity acquittees who had refused drug treatment were matched to a sample of nonrefusing hospitalized insanity acquittees in an attempt to measure the effect of treatment refusal on length of hospital stay. No measurable effects on the length of hospitalization were found. However, upon comparing the amount of time under court jurisdiction spent in the hospital and on conditional...

fluoride and dental fluorosis and treatment

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The Sedative Treatment of Insanity

The Treatment of Insanity, Ancient and Modern

The early history of medicine clcarly proves that diseases which are now of ordinary occurrcncc were known to the ancients, and that they were well acquainted with many remedies for the treatment of them which we still esteem valuable. The reason of this is obvious. The practice of mcdicinc was originally founded on observation and experience. AV e accordingly find that the priest-physicians?na...

On the Causes and Treatment of Insanity

Religious excitement forms 110 small number of the assigned causes; and, in accordance with the humane purpose of the institution, I feel it a duty to mention any cause, against the operation of which it may be possible, in some degree, to guard. I do not believe tliat true religion is ever a cause of insanity, though fanaticism or erroneous theological views undoubtedly may. Mental derangement...