 | Solomon Piggott - Suicide - 1824 - 422 pages
...have been condemned to a state of insulation from all rational and sympathizing intercourse before a necessity has occurred for so severe a lot. Diseased...unsound as absolutely to require separation. Many of the d6pots for the captivity of intellectual invalids may be regarded only as nurseries for and manufactories... | |
 | Medicine - 1830 - 602 pages
...others, who would else be continually exposed to their violence and caprice. But it is to be feared, thut many have been condemned to a state of insulation...reservoirs of lunacy, from which is issued, from time to time, a sufficient supply for perpetuating and extending this formidable disease — a disease which... | |
 | Leonard Shelford - Costs (Law) - 1833 - 964 pages
...be feared, that many have been condemned to a state of insulation from all rational and sympathizing intercourse, before the necessity has occurred for...reservoirs of lunacy, from which is issued, from time to time, a sufficient supply for perpetuating and extending this formidable disease — a disease which... | |
 | Andrew Scull - Social Science - 1993 - 470 pages
...of the human mind',85 he alleged that they fixed the very delusions they claimed to remove. Indeed, 'Many of the depots for the captivity of intellectual invalids may be regarded only as nurseries for arid manufactories of madness; magazines or reservoirs of lunacy, from which is 79. Ibid, p. 346. 80.... | |
 | Thomas Szasz - Social Science - 2011 - 293 pages
...is endured in these infirmaries for disordered, or rather cemeteries for deceased intellect. . . . Many of the depots for the captivity of intellectual...regarded only as nurseries for and manufactories of madness.65 Because the critics of false commitment never questioned the idea of mental illness or the... | |
 | Physics - 1816 - 504 pages
...be feared that many have been condemned to a state of insulation from all rational and sympathizing intercourse before the necessity has occurred for...reservoirs of lunacy, from which is issued, from time to time, a sufficient supply for perpetuating and extending this formidable disease, — a disease which... | |
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... intercourse before the necessity has occurred for so severe a lot. Diseased members have been amputated from the trunk of society before they have become so incurable or unsound as absolutely to require separation. Many of the depots for the captivity... 