The Materialism of Insanity

The metaphysician, though never so good a theorist, the physician, however sound a practitioner, must both give place to one who, sitting by the well of knowledge, dispenses with grace and justice to his thirsting brethren. He who, by opportunity and industry, can draw the deepest, to him we may look for the best and clearest supply. The pathology of insanity is still in its infancy; nothing is at present positively known, concerning the subtle change which the vesicular neurine undergoes in its state of transition from health to disease. We cannot investigate the secret and mysterious laws which govern and control the organization, development, degeneration, and decay of the