[Report of the visiting justices and medical officer of the County Lunatic Asylum, Forston, Dorset : Epiphany sessions, 1848] / Dorset County Lunatic Asylum.

  • Dorset County Lunatic Asylum (Forston, England)
Date:
1848?]
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Credit: [Report of the visiting justices and medical officer of the County Lunatic Asylum, Forston, Dorset : Epiphany sessions, 1848] / Dorset County Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nistration of wine has been resorted to in cases of General Paralysis, and it appears, that the vital energy has been thereby supported, and the extensive sloughing, which formerly almost invariably accom¬ panied this disease, has been prevented ; thus in this way two important objects have been accomplished— the patient has been preserved from the suffering whicli must accompany such a state, and which wras sometimes protracted for many weeks; and the attendants have been relieved from the most unpleasant duty of attending on them. The attacks of Apoplexy, from which death re¬ sulted, were of an aggravated character; and life was extinguished within a very short period, the patients lying in a state of profound sopor, from the com¬ mencement of the attack until the close of life. The average age at the time of death was 53J years. The average duration of the disorder was 11 years. At the commencment of the year, several of the patients suffered from influenza, but happily no death occurred. In the month of June, one female had a severe attack of scurvy, probably occasioned by her refusing to take any vegetables, when she could not have potatoes. Suicidal Cases.—12 cases have been admitted during the year, in which a decided suicidal propensity was known to exist; and by some of them several distinct attempts to accomplish their object had been made. The admission of these cases is at all times a source