Mad humanity : its forms, apparent and obscure / by L. Forbes Winslow.

  • Winslow, Lyttleton Forbes, 1844-1913.
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Mad humanity : its forms, apparent and obscure / by L. Forbes Winslow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PKEFACE The object I have in view in writing this book is to place before my readers the most important features and characteristics of a terrible complaint, which is causing much suffering and misery at the present day. A question, which has come before the consideration, on more than one occasion, of the House of Commons, as to the alarming increase of insanity, is sufficient excuse for my drawing public attention to such a vital matter. I have endeavoured to show that the increase of insanity, which has been of a progressive nature for many years, is real and not apparent. I have clearly shown that much of this increase is due to that terrible vice, indulgence in alcohol, and the facts, as placed before my readers, and the cases illustrative of this point, I consider to be conclusive. I have compared the condition of the insane, as it existed a century ago, to what it is at the present moment; I have avoided all legal and medical considerations