State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (instituted November 4, 1819) : [twenty-third report].

  • Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (Lincoln, England)
Date:
1847
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Credit: State of the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (instituted November 4, 1819) : [twenty-third report]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    way authorised a refutation, however easy it might be. Unjust and unpleasant as such assaults undoubtedly are, they must un¬ happily be looked for in all institutions whatsoever of a public nature, in which improvement and activity prevail, and in which the monotony of indifference and neglect do not prevail. But, though the Boards have not condescended to a reply, they have been compelled by the overt acts of the author of them, to adopt the following resolutions. “ Resolved, “ That the Board has witnessed, with deep) concern, the indecent violence both of language and conduct adopted by Dr. Nicholson, the junior Physician of this house,—his unprofessional tone and expressions towards his seniors in office, persons much his superior in experience, and certainly not inferior in education or ability,—his insulting language to the Governors and Boards, setting an example of insubordination through the whole establishment,— his reckless and dangerous line of experimental practice, contrary to all medical usage and the orders of the Boards.” “ Resolved, “ That this Board, wishing to set an example of temper on this occasion, makes every allowance for Dr. Nicholson’s inexperience and want of acquaintance with the established usages of society; and being extremely unwilling to throw the least impediment in the way of the most free and even hostile inquiry into the condition of an establishment of this nature, and trusting that his future conduct may justify the indulgence and forbearance of the Boards, has not thought it right at present to proceed to vote a want of confidence in his professional and personal conduct.” “ Resolved, “ That the junior Physician, having declared his deter¬ mination to disobey the Rules and Laws of the Establishment, and so to place the House-Surgeon and other Officers in the position of active parties to a disobedience of the Rules and Orders of the House, it has become necessary to adopt measures for sustaining the authority of the Boards.” “ Resolved and ordered, “ That no preparation containing Morphine, or Narcotine, Foxglove, or Strychnine, nor any Fermented drink, he employed by the House-Surgeon under any order of the junior Physician, without a consultation with, and the approbation of, one at least