Excerpt from The Insane in Foreign Countries For the purpose of securing fulness as well as accuracy, stenographic notes of visitations and interviews were made. By this means valuable opinions, expressed by distinguished specialists with whom the treatment of the mentally diseased has been a life-long study, have been carefully recorded. Avoiding, as far as possible, medical theories and contro versies, the writer has striven to convey the results of his Observations in plain, untechnical language. His aim throughout this whole inquiry has been to ascertain, from a practical point of View, what are the most advanced, the most humane, and the most economical methods of caring for the insane. 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.