On uncontrollable drunkenness considered as a form of mental disorder, with the only possible means of legally dealing with such cases / by L. Forbes Winslow.

  • Winslow, Lyttleton Forbes, 1844-1913.
Date:
1892
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Credit: On uncontrollable drunkenness considered as a form of mental disorder, with the only possible means of legally dealing with such cases / by L. Forbes Winslow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but none of these proved, to my mind, to be the effectual means of combating with the malady. Shortly before the Habitual Drunkards’ Act— an Act worse than useless in my estimation- passed, I opened an establishment for Uncon¬ trollable Drunkards at the Limes, Mortlake, with a view of trying to effect a cure. Finding, however, that such was impossible without absolute legal restraint, I decided to abandon my scheme. My opinion has remained un¬ changed since then as to the impossibility of dealing with such cases, unless we have legal certificates to restrain them, I state emphati¬ cally that the so-called inebriate establishments are a delusion and a snare. Drink is here supplied by the attendants; and, as we have seen of late in the papers, it occasionally happens that the directors are dipsomaniacs, who have ultimately to seek a shelter for themselves. In consequence of the great public interest taken by all classes in the subject, the medical journals took the matter up, and on the 14th