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INSANITY , PAST AND PRESENT. 311
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Qp Insanity, Like Other Diseases, Change...
reality wholesome ; and influence enable us over to our arrive conduct at conclusions Taking which therefore , may exert a rapid a
g chief lance cities at the in the proportion worldwe of will insane proceed to the . to population the more , minute of some , investi of the
gation of the state of lun , acy in France , America , and Great Britain . And thereby endeavor to glean information also the which moral may and throw reli some ious
light not only on the causes , but on g aspect In proof in which that we mental should disorders view insanity develop . of riches with civilization d consequentl , and
of nations with misery the increase is , remarkable we may of education instance as being , Turkey of industry the least ; which , civilized , among , , an and all having _European the y
sent smallest confining , proportion our attention of insane solel persons y to town to the s , we population find that . Cairo At , with
prea population 23571 of ers 830 ons , 000 . , And numbers as the only necessit fourteen y is lunatics small , , or few one will in
every , p in be of the Turkey surprised strange . Eng to treatment learn lish surgeons that which nowhere , when insane serving else Turkish is insanit in the soldiers y Crime so neg a received , could lected tell as at
the hands of their native doctors . There are certainly four recogpriests nised asy who lum have s in Constantinop the chief management le , but when of them we hear still that retain the the Greek _ciisis inflicted
the toms and natur women of the of throug dark the ages tr h atment the , and agency believe They of the that consider devil insanity , we th can at readil the onl y y imag on way men ine to
e e . get effected rid not of the alone disorder by exorcism is by but driving also out by coercive the the devil monks measures , which of the . is In Greek fo the be Island of Princepoin the Sea of Marmora
, , Church for receiv the e ir persons own maintenance so afflicted — of but the their middle position classes is no , _siich better as ;
_oan their pay keepers recognise no other influence than that of force . As for the pauper lunatics , they beg about the streets as Toms and o' Bedlam
once did in London , alternately exposed to the ridicule compassion The of next the passer citwhich -by . claims the greatest immunity for its inhay
proportion bitants is Madrid of the ; insane and after to the that population , St . Petersb being urg , h in ; the the cap average ital of Spainin 3350 in that of Russiaone in every 3 , 142 .
, one every , ; , th Yet an how in Cairo strikin ; still g the these difference two cities —more enjoy than a comp eleven arative times be found freedom greater in when ared with othersPerhaps the cause
comp . may the dition letharg of the ic Russians apathy of With the Sp no aniards commercial , and in enterprise the uneducated to stimulate con- ,
no and political their social faction position to . agitate is little , their influenced mental faculties by sudden remain changes inactive of ,
fortune . Next in order isor rather wasNaples ; for when the return was madethat monarch , was yet on , the throne who boasted
that he kept his , people sane by keeping them ignorant . The pro-
Insanity , Past And Present. 311
INSANITY , PAST AND PRESENT . 311
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 311, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/23/
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