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246 " THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS ,
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tourment" for him and for every one else jn . ble him and with that her with wit , a profundit passed y all which his rep astonished lies in an all an who alytical heard cruci her - .
i or The intellectual t , ance lucid , imbecile insane inca / or pacity weak may does -witted be not found always peop under le show are lucid various itself , and on father heads the their surface . had moral For to .
p his It lead is daug not for hter thre long e and years since who , against according had a profited governess to M . b Trelat y whom her , that ascendancy he had a placed over ov the er
child ' s * weak , intellect to lure her from the paternal home . Nay , irls who fairlcome under this head often marrybut are found
g y ; t incapable ime are sen of manag t away ing to h ome asy , ch lum ildren , where , or ex they penses should , and have after some been
from the first . M . Trelat has under his care at the Salpetriere several imbecile wives and mothers . Again , monomaniacs and jealous in the intervals of
their patients patients fits ; _; are sous and ordinaril -entendu so are , y wasters lucid f cours , as e , , that are . we proud drun speak k , ma d onl s l , icious y of cases , and in su which icidal ,
point accord of ing insanit to medical y . There judgment are even l , these maniacs qualities bl whom to are , in pushed their wildest _, 'to the
fitshearunderstand , and repy reasonay every question put t attend o , them to , it they and lose turn nothing it to profit of what as regards passes their around own them evil ,
intentions . The , lucid insanewhether rnaniacs or monomaniacs , those whose insanitis the , most disputed by the worldand
who are yet do the most mischief y . Guislain says that the medical , man often finds himself obliged to combat the inexperience of families , ct tendance le
porte realites et bien a Jinissent ne souvent voir partout son op ouvrir inion que sera les des yeux consideree alienes aux , _mais moins comme ordinairemen clairvoyants une t et de donner tristes qui
gain de cause d Vhomme par de Vart" It is rather by what they , do than by anything they say that be p assi atients of to this the class amount befcray of self their control
madnessand no limit can gned - entertain they , may the exhibit most . absurd Some ideas among such them as , a says transformation M . Trelat , of secretl name y ,
titleor person ; even to believing , that a student in the asylum is a . forei for , many gn prince months . Such even a delirious for a whole persuasion year , —and will often at last be , in hidden some
of moment has administration self never -betrayal of had pride desired ; to it or , repent is passion that sure of a to , patient it patientl come will should be sooner y let watching out be or . set lat M er at for . . liberty Trelat the One moment day says against the he
his advicebut she was soon sent back . Such are the chief points chap touched ters upon devoted , in the to Introduction such classes . of "We the will lucid now insane take one as by are one most the incurablehe
dangerous and most common . They are nearly all ,
246 " Though This Be Madness ,
246 " THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/30/
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