An enquiry into the causes producing the extraordinary addition to the number of insane : together with extended observations on the cure of insanity ; with hints as to the better management of public asylums for insane persons, directed with a view to their more immediate relief; as well as the diminution of the charges appropriated to their support. To which are annexed, some necessary observations in reply to Doctor Andrew Halliday's "Remarks on the present state of the lunatic asylums in Ireland" / by William Saunders Hallaran.

  • Hallaran, William Saunders.
Date:
1810
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Credit: An enquiry into the causes producing the extraordinary addition to the number of insane : together with extended observations on the cure of insanity ; with hints as to the better management of public asylums for insane persons, directed with a view to their more immediate relief; as well as the diminution of the charges appropriated to their support. To which are annexed, some necessary observations in reply to Doctor Andrew Halliday's "Remarks on the present state of the lunatic asylums in Ireland" / by William Saunders Hallaran. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    no reafon to doubt his continuance in perfed health. There is no general proof more indicatory of {lability in a perfon recently recovered from an infane paroxyfm, than his running rapidly into a flate of corpulency; nor is there any appearance lefs encouraging than extreme emaciation in the paroxyfm, and a continuance of it during the inter- val. A voracious appetite generally accompanies this ftate of emaciation, and moil generally at- tends thofe patients who degenerate into the ftate of dementia. METHOD