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A LUNATIC VILLAGE. 27
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seriously if the dangers of sucli a system do not largely counterbalance accidents the advant are ages few . in W number onderful and to say sli , this ht in is b kind y no . means Quarrels the g
a case ar tendency e rare ; ; the which natur they al tendency are here naturall of at the perfect insane be liberty entertained being to to indul seek is ge dissi . solitude pated As to ,
b suicide y the onl , facts any occurre fear ; voluntary which d in may and 1850 violent another y deaths in 1851 are almost . The unknown complete ; one
hold change , and of y , the ideas absence undergone of any by thing , the patient like irritating adopted restraint into a new , hel _hoiise ps the
the dispersion isolation , of morbid of the different ideas and families what we hinders call melanchol to a gr y e madness at degree ; , and any
fear two have of contag occurred ious exam in half ple . a century As to . attacks Public against , security the is person , therefore , only , fear of
mad complete neig , hbor and women than a and sane children one . if Occasional have no mor fits e the of nei fury hbors meeting are soon but a
the control subdued patient b Of y soon the course nourricier finds that ra , g it and ing is , " maniac no necessary use , " who . and , by has acquires passed power g hopelessl of ; self y -
that beyond but all careful . our the best stage loyment French of , any kind of and moral Eng of self and lish -government h p yg hysicians ienic treatment is now not agree fit in for the in Gheel earl this y , ;
ment stages . of In insan regar emp ity d prevents to a more , in pr innumerable obable source cases of , trouble its further , flig develop ht from
borhood the colony it of is patients far less common left to wander than mi so g fre ht el be y expected alone over . the Onl nei y four
ghrun or - & ve away escapes , in search are made of in a a liberty year . which Why , indeed nobody , should denies the them insane the at " rtheless are taken to ensure
Gheel ture . N of eve wanderers , systematic . At measures the first disappearance of one of recap the inmatesthe any nourricier warns the administration of Gheel , who , and
b darmes set the in . motion spontaneous Usuall all y , their however efforts , machinery , these of the functionaries population of watchmen are of , police the rendered surrounding , useless
genbe travellers distri y trotted cts . , off having It has to Gheel grown anything as up their odd into in a their public appearance tiv custom e legal , abode that and all ways ! susp ( a , custom should icious
• which should warn all eccentric presump philosophers from choosing that neighborhood traversed as in an bring excursion ing back . ) a A madm payment an also of serves a franc to for stimulate every
league the inveterate general zeal tendency . If , however to run , any one his is feet found are to sli be ghtl afnicted y hampered with
with an a short chainwhich does away not , prevent him from wandering about the town at , his own free will , but renders a long march
impossible Libert . isthenthe first article of the code practised at Gheel ;
the second y is , labor , . The insane are never compelled to work , but them to in the occupations
every means are taken to persuade join
A Lunatic Village. 27
A LUNATIC _VILLAGE . 27
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/27/
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