Thirty-fifth 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, 18th June, 1855 with the report of the medical officers.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Thirty-fifth 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, 18th June, 1855 with the report of the medical officers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    recovery is prolonged. The only certain test of sanity, or rather of a perfect recovery, is the effect produced by a return to the duties and struggles of active life. Unfortunately, too many per¬ sons forget, after recovery, the necessity for care and caution; they expose themselves to the exciting causes of the disease thoughtlessly ; and neglect the necessary attention to the rules of health which ought to have been their guides, and which afforded them the prospect of immunity from disease ; thus has it been truly said that— “ Our acts are at the bottom of our pains.