TREATMENT OF THE INSANE.

The Private Treatment of the Insane

The Private Treatment of the Insane as Single Patients

opposed to public lunatic asylums, more attention will be devoted to the treatment of the insane in private houses. There can be no doubt that, for those cases of insanity in which there is a prospect of ultimate recovery, there are many reasons, both extrinsic and intrinsic to the patients themselves, why complete cure should be more probable and the subsequent contentment of the patients more...

On Non-Mechanical Restraint in the Treatment of the Insane

Before proceeding to analyze this important body of conflicting evidence upon a much-vexed question, we would make a few preliminary observations. In the first place, we think we may take, with justice, exception to the term used in the Report, when referring to this subject ?viz. that of " instrumental restraint." This phrase conveys to the'uninitiated and popular mind a very erroneous idea of...

Lunacy Law and Institutional and Home Treatment of the Insane

It will thus be readily seen that the chief aims of this Act are to secure: (1) That no person is received as a patient into a mental hospital or other approved place unless of a certainty he is a lunatic within the meaning of the Lunacy Act., i.e., an idiot or a person of unsound mind, (2) That a person so admitted shall be discharged immediately he is no longer certifiable as a person of unso...

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