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    306 INSANITY, PAST AND PRESENT.

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    Qp Insanity, Like Other Diseases, Change...

    an oracleor shunned as embodying an emissary of the evil princi dies ple . o £ the So , Plato oracles taug he ht declared _^ when commenting that the prop on the hetess prop of hetic Delp rhapso hi and

    the to G priestesses reece , but in at their , Dodona sob had er senses rendered it little , natural or when none mad . that , Such noble its treatment being service the

    foremost supposed _shoiildbe of ori left all gin in the the of the nations hands disorder of of the anti , priesthood quit was y as having . And first Egyp set t stands apart

    special extremity places of for the the king recep dom tion were and temp cure les of the dedicated insane . to At Saturn either ,

    whither melancholies resorted in great numbers to seek relief . In these abodessurrounded by shady groves and beautiful gardens ,

    their t time their divided speed , between ascribed agreeable to Divine recreation interference and useful resulted employ in

    -When reality men , from however the the j y udicious cure disease , tr assumed eatment a to mali which gnant they shape were , , an subj d mani ected . - , , evil acknowledged

    fested The poets itself have in wild exhausted delirium all , the the influence efforts of of their genius was in describing . diml the mihttruththat insanitis

    its terrorsand y grasping * gy , y more in the frequentl progenitor , y the than result in the of the victim wilful they neg imputed lect of the it p to hysical the direct laws

    interference Sometimeswhen of the the gods sin , was taking in the , vengeance individual on , the ancestral seizure guilt was .

    tormented can believed be more to by , be fearful the a symb Furies than ol of those the future picture mysterious punishment drawn agents by . _^ Wh Esch of inexorable at y , lus for of ins Orestes t fate ance , !

    As t insanit morals y of increased the with became , tj & e darker spread in of character luxury , and in from proportion the cor to - its rup frequencythis age latter notion respecting its origin became more

    The prevalent glimpse . Pit , given y gave by p Hol lace y to Writ abhorrence , in the , sympath case ation of which y the to detestation Gadarene alone s , .

    vided of the asy condition lums for of the the leper insan , e and among cities that of this refuge n visitation for the homicide regarded pro- ,

    affords us some criterion of judging how was and A treated few centurie at the s comm later , en and cement the the same of ori the ideas in Christi of madness that an were era . were entertained revived

    with by the the requirements the philo sole sop excep hers of tion the respecting that heathen in the mythology one g case , in they the were other , adap to that ted to of of nature

    revelation Divine consistent insp . with iration Insanit the ; when dogmas y , where the of reverse the the delusions Church , to the , insti was partook gation again ecstatic ascribed of a the visions Evil to

    of One the . Were saints it and otherwise the austere , how vagaries could we of reconcile the ascetics the , with the

    teaching StRosa of insp St iration . , Catherine or the St dictates . Hilclegarde of common , and sense a host ? of The others visions , were of

    indul but . the ged , result fancy , of and a a morbid mode , of condition life altogether of brain opposed ; resulting to those from laws an

    306 Insanity, Past And Present.

    306 INSANITY , PAST AND PRESENT .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/18/