Thirty-second annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 21st June, 1852 with the report of the medical officers.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Thirty-second annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 21st June, 1852 with the report of the medical officers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Directors that the Asylum will long continue to receive the countenance, not only of beneficent men, but of the Divine Favourer of all true hearted-striving for the good of the species; and this last hope rises to a confident belief, when they consider that nothing can be more according to the mind of the Divine Being, than that we on earth should do what is in our power to alleviate the mental distresses of our brethren, even as He, in Heaven, has contrived and done so much to lighten the mental burdens under which we all labour. The Directors believe that Institutions for the treatment of the insane are as certainly Christian as they are philanthropic; and they confidently trust that the efforts made in this way will obtain the blessing of Him who, in his own lifetime here below, delighted to see the furious and the possessed sitting at His feet, “ clothed, and in their right mind.”