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A LUNATIC VILLAGE. 21
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the use of the insane . This church is a monument of the history of the colony , which is written the , painted , of Saint sculptured Upon hne its walls ed i .
wood In one in of ei the ht chapels artments is legend . The first shows Dymp the birth , carv of the n rincess , who g is comp being confided by her mother to the care of
thoug p queen Gerrebert hts . , . In , the In the the missionary third fourth , the devil . the The princess insp second ires the embarks contains King of with the Ireland Gerrebert death with of evil the for
Belium . In the fifththe , King of Ireland is seen searching for tated his g daug and hter himself . In cutting the sixth , off , her he head is causing . In the Gerrebert seventh , to be process decap io i n -
is carr , ying the relics of the saint . In the eighth , a devil is leaping while out of another a mad patient woman ' bearing s head , chains ejected is th anxiousl ence by y force expecting of pra a y like ers ,
deliverance . On leaving this church , our traveller finds himself again but in rather the
b covered fields are ; surrounding they with soon heath the however town or to — give the which p sand lace are y to well soil the of cultivated wide the , arid lonel , Camp y plains ine , .
an Having of Gheel object thus , we of interest presented will inquire , to modern the into legendary the physicians circumstance ith orig the in of and all insane s countries b the y which outward . it became aspect them
alone There to wander are four savagel ways y of , as dealing is the w case in some barbarous : leaving nations ; retaining to them , the them princi in domestic le of active charge colonization ; shutting . them The up first ; and of these apply four ing
is expensive agreed to and be out can p of onl the be question undertaken . The in second a minorit is very y of cases difficult . The and
, y third aware expedient that its conditions obtains in hav all e civilized been subjected countries to , but wide our inquiry readers and are Public
extensive reform in the course of this century . * gratitude of attributes La Salpetriere the honor and to Bicetre M . Pinel , In ph Eng ysician land to his the footst Parisian eps have Asylums been
followed by Dr . Connolly , Dr . . Tuke , and others , ; so that the whole general practice of our publi and c and private confinement asylums is reckoned changed .
Chainsstrait-waistcoats , solitary , are is gross spared barbarities , so far to , except soften in the cases affliction of extreme as to allow violence of . comparative No effort ,
libert iheiv y _fStes . The and patients dances in sometimes asylums even have their their literary religious amusements exercises , .
nation If any . rare It cases was pointedl of cruelty , y are said exposed of Pinel , the , quHl public dleva rings Vinsense with indi d g la
-( lignite Whatever cle malade be . howeverthe improvements introduced into our
the nature asylums obli of gation in a prison France of , sleep rather and ing Eng than , , walking land of , an these , hosp and still ital eating partake . Very at fixed somewhat strict hours disci of , pline and the , ,
above allexclusion from the society of friends , are necessary condi-,
A Lunatic Village. 21
A LUNATIC VILLAGE . 21
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/21/
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