Excerpt from The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, 1859, Vol. 12 And yet it would appear that pue eral insanity was well worthy of separate study, whether from e frequency of its occur rence, the gravity of its character, its clearly-marked etiological relations, its amenability to treatment, or lastly, its important legal bearings. There are many reasons why it is difficult to determine with any approach to accuracy the absolute number, or the relative proportions, of these diseases to the number of persons confined. 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.