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    Vol. VII. May 1, 1861. / No. 39.

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    XXIV.— INSANITY AMONG WOMEN. BY DANIEI H...

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    In directing his attention to the import...

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    The

    THE

    _EUGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL

    PUBLISHED MONTHLY .

    Vol. Vii. May 1, 1861. / No. 39.

    Vol . VII . May 1 , 1861 . / No . 39 .

    Xxiv.— Insanity Among Women. By Daniei H...

    XXIV . — INSANITY AMONG WOMEN . BY DANIEI H . _TITKE , _M . D _., _POllMEKLY LECTUKEE ON _INSANITY AT THE YORK . SCHOOL OP MEDICINE , AND VISITING _MEDICAL OFFICER TO THE YORK RETREAT .

    In Directing His Attention To The Import...

    In directing his attention to the important subject of insanity among womenthe first question which arrests the inquirer is , does

    "this terrible disorder , exist in a greater or . less extent among them than among the male population ? I say ' terrible , " not because

    it is non-physical or supernatural , but simply because it must be classed among the most terrible forms of bodily disease . For strip

    it as we may , and ought , of all the horrors which the ignorance and the superstition of man have thrown around itthat disease must

    , remain terrible which can destroy our noblest and kindliest feelings , can represent our best friends as our worst enemiesand can convert

    , the mother , guarding her infant from never so slight an injury , into its determined murderess .

    Writing as I am in a ladies' magazine , I should have felt it scarcely polite to have put the above question , had not the

    _magazine already contained articles in which the greater amount of mental disease among the fair sex is intimated . It would have

    seemed to me , that to admit , for a moment , the possibility of having to replyto the question in the affirmative would shock any

    gentleman ' s instinctive _^ notions of gallantry . It is an indescribable relief to mehowevernot to be reduced to so painful a necessityand to

    , , , be able—although some physicians have been rude enough to assert , and apparently provethe greater liability of ladies to lose their

    , wits—to unite in opinion with those who have rebutted so outrageous a calumny . Let us for a moment glance at the latest returns of

    the numbers of the lunatic population of England and Wales . The returns of the Commissioners in Lunacy and the Poor Law Board

    '• combined , give us for January 1 , I 860 : ——Males . 16 , 592

    Females 19 , 878 Total 36 , 470 *

    Past * ¦ The and Present difference , " page between 317 these of the fi English g ures and Woman those ' s _Journal the article , ar " i Insanity ses from

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/1/