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An Oasis in the Desert of German Restraint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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Dr. Ludwig Meyer, of Hamburg, has had the courage to defend the non-restraint system in Germany, and also himself to practise it in the Hamburg Asylum with the best success. It is true that Dr. Meyer had previously visited England, and examined with careful eyes, impartial goodwill, and practical mind, the non-restraint system. Why do not such physicians as Casimir Pinel of Paris, Renaudin of Mareville, Dick of Klingmünster, Neumann of Pöpelwitz, and Erlenmayer of Coblenz, visit England also, and with the same honest intentions as Meyer, study a system which has been practised here for more than twenty years amongst a population of insane amounting to 50,000 patients? It must be a messing to suffering humanity and a disgrace to those who have the boldness not only to assert that they do not comprehend these facts, but also to call the system an English swindle, to hear the voice of Dr. L. Meyer in the Desert of German Restraint.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1864 

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References

Casimir Pinei, ‘Journal de Medicine Mentale,’ 1862.Google Scholar

Examen de non-restraint. ‘Guialain,’ Leçons Orales,’ tom. iii, p. 232, c'est Pinei qui a conçu le premier l'idée de renoncer aux moyens de contrainte.Google Scholar

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