Letter to the ... Earl of Shaftesbury ... on the laws which regulate private lunatic asylums : with a comparative view of the process "de lunatico inquirendo" in England and the law of "interdiction" in France : to which are added a few observations on the causes of insanity and improvement in its treatment during the last twenty-five years

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seymour, Edward J. (Edward James), 1796-1866, author.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric hospitals.

Mental illness--Treatment.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (59 pages).

Place of Publication:

1859

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

1477836657