The Prevention of Insanity and the Early and Proper Treatment of the Insane

Excerpt from The Prevention of Insanity and the Early and Proper Treatment of the InsaneBefore this writing, Maudsley had been even more emphatic. He declares that insane asylums originated in the shame, hor ror, and dread of insanity which still infect the public mind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.