American Institutions for the Insane
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We subjoin an able article from the pen of a distinguished American psychologist, Dr. Pliny Enrle, on the present state of the principal Asylums for the Insane in the United States of America.* It is taken from two consecutive numbers of Dr. Hay's ably conducted and excellent periodical, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. The reports upon which this paper is based are so difficult to obtain in this country, that we are glad of an opportunity of placing this abstract before our readers, all of whom are much
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On the State and Condition of Lunacy in Ireland *Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of the Lunatic Asylums, and other Institutions for the Custody and Treatment of the Insane in Ireland.—(Blue Book.) 1858.Observations on the Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into Lunatic Asylums, &c. (Ireland), in a Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Naas, M.P., Chief Secretary. By J. Nugent, M.D., Inspector of Lunatic Asylums. (Her Majesty's Stationery Office.) 1858.
In 1850 a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the state of Lunatic Asylums and other Institutions for the custody and treatment of the Insane in Ireland, and into the present state of the Law respecting Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums in that part of the United Kingdom. The Report of the Commissioners has now been made public, and it is unfavourable, not only as regards the condition an...
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1. The report by Dr. Bell, of the McLean Asylum, for the year 1851, is, like most of its predecessors, very brief, and is mostly devoted to a description of the method by which the Cochiuate water has been introduced into the buildings of the institution. A disbeliever in the value of statistics in insanity, the Doctor makes his practice consistent with his theory by restricting these data to t...
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دوره 5 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016