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INSANITY, PAST AND PRESENT. 397
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the amusement - pauper , as how well much as emp more loyment to ; the and educated if all thi and s is necessary refined is elevated ; yet to
of to generall a social position y life the hitherto and treatment the unknown common is directl , courtesies the y the other opposite of is degraded society —one , a in feeling the scale for
which Those frequentl who , can y outlive recall s the a trivial long mind convalescence circumstance , totally neglected remember . irritation how , in
their weak statethe most produced ; the how hired they have shrunk , though from a model being one touched how the b tray y the ill- horny arranged hand has of
nurse , ; , , vided driven it away was served the appetite with that attention cared not ; how how a homel jarring y the window fare , pro has - up
and caused common hours of sense restless to inquietude " us ; yet shall we Ave had not reason feel for to those guide who us ,
reprove;have notand the less wonder that they are affected likewise ? But where we are , instantl perchance but , too y sent , frequentl were off nursed to some y the at private proprietors home . asy How lum onl differ , y _" think retreat retard ent to of , the " their making or insan elsewhere e large , who ,
the profits as much insane ; and as in in possible general order . ; to there We retain are are their bri speakin ght patients exceptions g of , the , management and of instance recovery many of of
the the as Hanwell others public as asy and London lums Colney we hosj cannot Hatch ) itals . speak of These the too present bear hig the hl day y same ; such do to comparison , for those of the to , the
patient last of the centu poor was ry in ; sent and a large to in Hanwell proof London of , it parish or , we one were , of that our told on public by an average one asy of lums , if guardians an , his insan cure e
his was detention effected in was about the often fault a month prolonged lies in ; ourselves if to sent an to . indefinite Let a private those period in establishment that . rank Then of , , againwe repeat
life which , lelet unconsciousl them , learn y influences to consider the insanity manners in of other the age term , set s than the examp ; not onlwill the cultiva
those of shame and abhorrenceand then y , - tion cure of but such it w feelings ill lead be to those the best in , a metho humbler d of r prevention ank of life as being well ' better as of
cared , for and assisted in this aifliction ; let them not be ashamed of doing the educated their duty and , and the well of practicall -disposed y must carrying know out to , what be rig in ht . theory Let
those who have relatives afflicted by this most fearful of all visitationsdevote themselves to their care ; and those who have not , so
_irain , their minds and facultiesthat should circumstances call forth lieir lome energ do not ies claim , they their may be attention found , equal they may to the be emergency enabled to ; carry or if
brth ience raining into to guide and the hig so , and hways ameliorate the and patience bye the ways condition to , put of human in of practice their suffering afflicted , their the previous fellow exj _> e - -
_sreatures , in all the various ranks of life .
A . E . G .
Insanity, Past And Present. 397
INSANITY , PAST AND PRESENT . 397
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/37/
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