Excerpt from Insanity and Its Treatment: Lectures on the Treatment, Medical and Legal, of Insane Patients; Together With Types of Insanity; An Illustrated Guide in the Physical Diagnosis of Mental Disease The following Lectures, in an abridged form, were delivered by me at the Schools of St. George's Hospital, and I now publish them with the hope that they may serve to some extent as a handy book concerning Insanity, on which subject there exist in our language few works of the character of a text-book. Written for students, they make no claim to be a complete treatise on Psychology; neither have all questions connected with Insanity been dis cussed ih them - such as the management of asylums, the problem of dis posing of the crowds Of our chronic patients, or of am ending the present Lunacy law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.