This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ... weeks; under this treatment the disorder subsided, and he was cured within a year from its commencement. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LIX. Portrait of R. C. aged 52. This man was a soldier in the Marine service, from which he was discharged insane; some years after his discharge he was tried for the crime, 23 years ago, to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ... weeks; under this treatment the disorder subsided, and he was cured within a year from its commencement. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LIX. Portrait of R. C. aged 52. This man was a soldier in the Marine service, from which he was discharged insane; some years after his discharge he was tried for the crime, 23 years ago, to which he has still so strong a propensity as to require his being separated from the rest of the patients in the establishment--he is of a cunning disposition, and has insane ideas of grandeur. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LX. Portrait of J. H. aged 50. This person has been in confinement above twenty years--he was tried for this offence, and acquitted on the ground of insanity; his unnatural propensity still continues; he is sometimes noisy and tears his clothes. 165 EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXI. Portrait of J. T. D. aged 40. Little is known of the previous history of this man, except that he was a day labourer, he had been insane four years before his death, and was so much addicted to this unnatural vice that it was necessary to seclude him from other patients, whom he continually annoyed: on one occasion the mouth of an idiot boy was the recipient: he died a few months ago of phthisis pulmonalis. 167 EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXII. Portrait of J. C. aged 40. This man was tried and found guilty, but acquitted on the ground of insanity; his crime was stated to be "contra naturae ordiuem rem habuit veneream et carnaliter cognovit asinam." He is of a dull temperament, and of rather weak intellect. MONOMANIA OF DRUNKENNESS. The immoderate use of fermented liquors, or of other substances producing intoxication, besides the immediate effect, a fit of drunkenness, with its usual phenomena of hilarity, delirium, and stupor, (of short duration, ) and its subs...
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