Hints for introducing an improved mode of treating the insane in the asylum : read before the Governors of the New-York Hospital, on the 4th of Fourth-month, 1815 / by Thomas Eddy.

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1815
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Credit: Hints for introducing an improved mode of treating the insane in the asylum : read before the Governors of the New-York Hospital, on the 4th of Fourth-month, 1815 / by Thomas Eddy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HUNTS FOR INTRODUCING AN IMPROVED MODE OF TREATING THE INSANE IN THE ASYLUM. OF the numerous topics of discussion, on subjects relating to the cause of hu- manity, there is none which has stronger claims to our attention, than that which relates to the treatment of the insane. Though we may reasonably presume, this subject was by no means overlooked by the ancients, we may fairly conclude, it is deservedly the boast of modern times, to have treated it with any degree of suc- cess. It would have been an undertaking sin- gularly interesting and instructive, to trace the different methods of cm e which have been pursued in different ages, in the treat- I * *.