* “Some further Observations in reply to Certain Strictures upon the Treatment of a certain class of Destructive Patients.” By Edgar Sheppard, M.D., Medical Superintendent of the Male Department of Colney Hatch.Google Scholar

* Since the above translation went to press, the following annotation appeared in the ‘British Medical Journal;’ a paper which is always in advance in information concerning insanity.Google Scholar

“the treatment of lunatics at colney hatch asylum.Google Scholar

“The following statement occurs in the first number of Professor Griesinger's new and excellent journal, ‘Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten.’ It is signed ‘W.’Google Scholar

“‘When I visited Colney Hatch early in July last, I was conducted through the asylum by Dr. Sheppard's assistant, he himself being unfortunately prevented from accompanying me. Notwithstanding the instructions of the committee, I saw several patients, some of whom (maniacal) were shut up in cells perfectly naked, while others (quiet paralytics) lay in bed without shirts. The gentleman who accompanied me neither blamed the attendant nor gave any directions for clothing the patients: the practice seemed to be the usual one. He readily entered into my arguments against it, but evidently shared Dr. Sheppard's views; and I did not succeed in convincing him by the discussion of the impropriety of such a procedure…. The adversaries of non-restraint will not fail to claim the case of Dr. Sheppard in the interest of restraint. ‘See,’ it will be said, ‘what your boasted non-restraint leads to! Instead of properly restraining the patient, you prefer letting him rave naked in his cell!’Google Scholar

“The writer goes on to point out that his experience at Colney Hatch was quite exceptional, and attributes what he saw there to the impossibility of properly managing so vast an asylum with its present staff of medical officers. Nevertheless, he heads his paper, ‘The Fruits of Non-restraint.’”—British Medical Journal, November 30.Google Scholar