An Essay on Insanity: Translated From the Author's Latin Inaugural Dissertation Composed on That Subject, and Submitted to the Faculty of Medicine in ... M. D. In the Present Year (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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It deserves. The ancients appear to have bestowed more thought upon it than we have done, and to have had as cor rect notions of its nature as the generality of practitioners of the present day. Indeed, I think we may collect from their writings, that they knew more of it than we do, and practised a more judicious treatment. Still the information we have from them is vague and unsatisfactory, and it is left for us to obtain, what is so very desirable, a correct idea of its pathology and treatment. M edical men are now happily prosecuting an inquiry into these points, and endeavouring to remove the.
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