Memoranda regarding the Royal lunatic asylum, infirmary, and dispensary, of Montrose

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J. & D. Nichol, 1841 - Scotland - 278 pages
 

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Page 16 - shall be in and by all things valid and effectual in law, according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and shall be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favorable and beneficial
Page 14 - Charter to be passed and expede, under the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and used in Scotland, in place of the Great Seal formerly used there,
Page 34 - building, with a sufficient number of suitable attendants, restraint is never necessary, never justifiable, and always injurious, in all cases of Lunacy whatever. I assert the possibility of the total banishment of instruments of restraint, and all other
Page 40 - following abstract of a statistical Table, showing the rapid advance of the abatement of restraint in this Asylum, under an improved construction of the Building, Night-watching, and attentive Supervision. We may venture to affirm, that this is the first frank statement of the common practice of restraints hitherto laid before a British public.
Page 58 - A superficial view of this subject has led to the belief that the great secret of penal legislation is, to annex a penalty of sufficient severity to every offence; and, accordingly, all the variety of pains that the body of man could suffer, infamy and death, have figured
Page 58 - animates the patriot to resist civil tyranny, and the martyr to defy the flames; when it is perverted, and made the incentive to vice and crime, goads on the convict to arraign the justice of his sentence, to rebel against those who execute it, and to counteract its effects with an obstinacy in exact proportion to the severity of the punishment.
Page 34 - began. I assert, then, in plain and distinct terms, that in a properly-constructed building, with a sufficient number of suitable attendants, restraint is never necessary, never justifiable, and always injurious, in all cases of Lunacy whatever.
Page 39 - Hill) has expressed his own belief, founded on experience in this House, that it may be possible to conduct an institution for the Insane without having recourse to the employment of any instruments of restraint
Page 35 - What mode of treatment do you adopt, in place of restraint ? How do you guard against accidents ? How do you provide for the safety of the attendants? In short, what is the substitute for coercion
Page 164 - Verily I say unto you, in as much as ye have done it unto one

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