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102 APEIIi TEARS.
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XVI.—APRIL TEAKS. :
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* "Wearied with their hours of gladness,...
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Part Ii. {Concluded From P. 33.)
They are easily met and controlled , and rather confirm than confute the view that the indiscriminate imprisonment of the mad
inflicts a much larger amount of suffering and evil than it prevents . Whilehoweverthe broad principles illustrated at Gheel appear to
be correct , the details , of the arrangements there struck me as very faulty . The , dwellings of the cottagers with whom the mad folk
lodge , are , for the most part , ( or were when I visited Gheel , ) in very imperfect sanitary conditions ; and the chamber set apart for the sick
inmate "was often a miserably small , ill-ventilated place . The payments made by the communal authorities who send the lunatics to
Gheel , are , I think , too small ; and in various other points the arrangements which have grown -up and become habitual at Gheel
appear to be susceptible of improvement . Jules Duval's visit to the lace wasI believesubsequent to mine . His bookand Dr .
p Parigot ' s ' , L'Air Libre , et la Vie de Famille / give , I have , no doubt , a fair view of the system so far as I can judge from the cursory
attention I paid to the subject in the midst of other pressing engagements . "
I have only to add in presenting- the above facts and opinions to our readers , that it is very much to be desired that English
travellers who , from family motives , are interested in the subject of insanity should themselves visit Gheel . It is very easy of access
from London . It hardly lies out of the route of ordinary autumn tourists , who on their way to the Rhine may well spare three or
four days to visit this curious and interesting colony . Though English men of science and medicine aredoubtlesswell acquainted
, , with the resources of the Continent in the healing art , it is , nevertheless , true that the public in general is singularly deficient in
knowledge of what goes on out of our own little island , either in regard to scienceor to philanthropy . And of womenwhom it
especially concerns , to understand the best methods of treating , the sickthis is especially true . Accounts of Gheel have been published
in the , medical journals of London , and have been discussed in the circles amidst which such journals circulate . But something more
is wanted , and that is that every great experiment for the benefit of lessons humanit _^ it y te should aches be be appropriated as widely popularised by all . as possible , and the
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102 Apeiii Tears.
102 APEIIi TEARS .
Xvi.—April Teaks. :
XVI . —APRIL TEAKS . :
* "Wearied With Their Hours Of Gladness,...
* "Wearied with their hours of gladness , Weep the children in their
sadness—Piteous tears ; one minute after Peals their joyous , ringing laughter ;
Theirs are "April tears . "
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/30/
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