Report of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Butler Hospital for the Insane: Presented to the Corporation at Their Annual Meeting, January 25, 1865 (Classic Reprint)
Report of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Butler Hospital for the Insane: Presented to the Corporation at Their Annual Meeting, January 25, 1865 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Report of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Butler Hospital for the Insane: Presented to the Corporation at Their Annual Meeting, January 25, 1865 In such a state of public feeling, it is not surprising that the very advantages possessed by medical men, at the present time, for learning the phenomena of insanity, should be regarded - as it has been not unfrequently - not as a means of improvement, but as necessarily a source of self-deception and mistake. It is said that, on a question of doubtful sanity, ...
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Excerpt from Report of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Butler Hospital for the Insane: Presented to the Corporation at Their Annual Meeting, January 25, 1865 In such a state of public feeling, it is not surprising that the very advantages possessed by medical men, at the present time, for learning the phenomena of insanity, should be regarded - as it has been not unfrequently - not as a means of improvement, but as necessarily a source of self-deception and mistake. It is said that, on a question of doubtful sanity, a person's judg ment is to be distrusted, for the very reason that, for the better part of his life, he has lived in intimate communion with the insane, studying their ways, habits, and turns of thought and feeling. We might as well say that, on a question of rocks and strata, the Opinion of a professed geologist is worthless, because he has spent his days in studying the structure of the earth; or that a physician would be an unsafe adviser in diseases of the eye, simply because he has made them his specialty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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