Mr. Hill's Essay on the Nature and Cure of Insanity

ment. Juvenile indiscretions founded the predisposition to insanity, which was called into action by a fall from a stair-case. The horror of a lunatic asylum completed the catastrophe. We find it so absolutely impossible to connect in the wajr of analysis, our author's chain of reasoning on any subject, that we are forced on this occasion to deviate from our usual course, and select such passages from the different Sections of the work as may appear most useful to the reader, and creditable to the author. " Early imprudent use of alcohol, it is much to be feared, has often arisen from the careless or injudicious advice of the faculty, which circumstance, added to the immense use of Charlatanic Compositions, prove hut too successful causes exciting to lunacy, suicide, and honorable or dishonorable murder. Many persons who despise the degrading epithet of drunkard, are yet daily or nightly accustomed to such spirituous potations as scarce ever to retire to