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YET THEBE ' s METHOD IN IT." 243
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'disordered brain , procured the re-installation of the young gentleman procedure into his rig was hts of supposed liberty , to and leave such him remnants master of of property . Amidst as the the
universal debate and numerous references made at the time to medical authoritwe do not remember to have heard or seen the
title of a very remarkable y , and interesting work published last year in Paris : _"La Folie Lucide etudiee et consideree au point de vue Medecin
de la Famille et de la Societe . Par le Docteur Trelat , a alienes FHospice recueillis de la Sal chaque petriere jour ; Ancien par 1 ' administration Medecin prepose ; An a cien l ' examen Membr des e
• du This Conseil book de , as Salubrite its name du imp Departement lies , is not a de merel la Seine y scientific . " treatise
suited for the use and guidance of scientific or professional men . Les alienes lucides , defined by M . Trelat as insane people who show yet
famil si rep gn ly of with and madness , social exactitude relations to superficial to questions A large observers addressed proportion , are to of them considered his , examp and in les their are no
feminine y and touch on . so many questions which are practically useful and , interesting to the readers of this Journalthat it is
, _^ mp The ly great worth hosp while ital to , or draw , as their we should attention rather to call the book it , the . Asylum of
tion la Sal of petriere 5000 women , is put , to 3 , 500 a double are aged purpose and . infirm Of its person enormous s , who popula here
-Trelat find a resting is one - of place the for medical their officials last day appointed s , and 1 , 500 for this are latter insane depart . M - .
ment . He resides with his family in a suite of fine old rooms { attending Louis Quinze to the ) attached afflicted to inmate the ho s for spital twenty , and -two has ye been ars lish : such readers engaged are his in
amp The le credentials motive of his for work claiming is to the draw attention attention of to Eng the vast amount . of hidden madness existing in the world ; madness which breaks
forth in violentcrueland unreasonable conduct , and perhaps passes away to the , grave , without ever being it characterized by that into
_oiameand whichwhile on the one side frequently lapses _debatable _ihopeless , and land evident where , vicious mania , propensities shades off , or on uncontrolled the other , into feelings the
• M contend . Trelat for from emp his ire constan in the t tottering attention brain to this . As one mi subject ght be , expected and from ,
the scientifi , c character of his intellectinclines to see madness where the divine and the moralist would testif , y against wilful indulgence
in sin . But this maintenance of a debatable land between the two the arenas "brain of jud whose gment operations is inevitable during . In life so _fme must _j so ever subtle remain an organ hidden as
from but the our at coarser which sig , ht , form and the s whose feeble of injury condition or , the we evil shall after will probabl death succumbs rarel y never y and betrays detect organic any the points ,
tivel mischief y few commences instances , offends ; and happ against ily , unless the law the , it subj is not ect , ours in a compara to judge - .
Yet Thebe ' S Method In It." 243
YET THEBE ' s METHOD IN IT . " 243
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/27/
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