Sixth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
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[1858]
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Credit: Sixth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Importance of Early Treatment. Woman, living fourteen miles from the Asylum, left her home four o’clock one wet morning, and taking the Railway as h guide, hurried to the Asylum ; she passed through several tunne« on her road, and reached this place in a wet and exhausted co dition. She said she “ dreaded being ill at home, for they treat her badly when mad”—that she “ knew the Asylum was her be j place, and she came as fast as she could to get help in time”' I that “ she did not let her friends know of her intention, for s I had asked them to bring her, and they were unwilling to do s» I Happily there was no need for her full detention; and a lit: I medicine and repose tranquillised the rising nervous agitatiol and in two days she returned to her home with her friends, a I has remained there ever since. The Cures during the past year have reached 60 per ce I upon the admissions ; but the most gratifying fact has been t V of twenty Patients, unafflicted with General Paralysis, who w I admitted within one month of the primary attack of their malad I sixteen have left the Asylum cured—three are convalescent, t ft will probably be discharged at the next Meeting of the C< I rnittee, and the other one was in the last stage of Pulmon I Consumption when she came to the Asylum, and died in til weeks after her admission. These facts, corresponding as thejlu with the successful results of treatment in St. Luke’s and Bet;* hem Hospitals, prove that Insanity, when under fit treatment proper Hospital, is, during its early stages, as curable a malad ft;I rheumatism or inflammation of the lungs, or any other impor 1 bodily disorder. There is no specific for the cure of Insai If Each case demands its own especial treatment, and he oni» qualified to treat this, or any other disease, who lias studied < Ip fully the human organism, and has duly appreciated the ill I' soluble yet mysterious sympathy which exists between m I corporeal and spiritual nature. The dependence of sound m< I : manifestations upon healthy corporeal structure has been adnx I: