Plain Talk about Insanity, Its Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and the Treatment of Mental Diseases: With Remarks on Hospitals and Asylums, and the Medico-Legal Aspect of Insanity (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Popular medical writings are, as a rule, harmful, from the dan gerons self-confidence a superficial knowledge inspires. With re spect to Insanity, much preventible suffering exists, from the tendency to experiment with a disease of the brain, requiring, of'all others, the most patient and skilful attention of the physician. No encourage ment to such experiments on the part of friends, or public Officers, will be found here. The medical profession alone can furnish suit able guardianship for the insane.
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