This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV ABUSES AND ACHIEVEMENTS The Condition of the Insane in the Early Seventies--Bad Management of Asylums--Insane in the Poor Houses--Lunatics in Chains--Sent to an Asylum in a Box--Brutal Attendants--My Efforts to Effect Reform--Introduction of the School System--Careless Commitments--The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV ABUSES AND ACHIEVEMENTS The Condition of the Insane in the Early Seventies--Bad Management of Asylums--Insane in the Poor Houses--Lunatics in Chains--Sent to an Asylum in a Box--Brutal Attendants--My Efforts to Effect Reform--Introduction of the School System--Careless Commitments--The Wendell Case--The Other Side of the Picture--The Evils of Expert Testimony--The Remedy--A New Proceeding in the Schneider Case--The Social System--Psychopathic Hospitals--A Scheme for the Determination of Vocational Fitness. At about the time I graduated in medicine the wretched condition of the insane and feeble minded was being generally recognised. Although some of the New England asylums were well conducted, as were one or two in Pennsylvania, where the influence of Dr. Isaac Ray had made itself felt, there were many others throughout the United States which deserved rigorous investigation and correction. Too often the political considerations in the management were the only ones that prevailed, and as there was a Board which was distinct from the medical control, and as the former not only often contained a number of scheming and dishonest men, as well as others in league with the politicians, many ugly stories were afloat in regard to peculation and dishonesty, and investigations were often urged. Of course, as the result of all this, the poor patients were the sufferers. The condition of the defective paupers was especially deplorable, for idiots were everywhere treated as animals, and I have not only seen barren cells in the open air, situated next to the County Poor Houses, but some of these wretched creatures were actually in chains. There was no system of examination that amounted to much; they were simply cared for as public...
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Very Good + Cloth hardback, 416 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy, some soiling and rubbing to cloth covers, minor wear to tips and edges of the covers, light soil/discoloration to endpapers and titlepage, front inner hinge shaken a bit. 1916.
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