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On the Treatment of the Insane sixty years ago as illustrated by the Earlier Records of the Dundee Royal Asylum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

James Rorie*
Affiliation:
Dundee Royal Asylum

Extract

Having been invited by our indefatigable Secretary to give a contribution to the present meeting, and having been recently engaged in looking over the earlier records of the Old Asylum of Dundee, it occurred to me that a few remarks on the early history of this institution and the means then in use in the treatment of the patients might not prove uninteresting, as the Asylum was erected at a very important period in the history of psychological medicine, namely, that period when it had dawned on the public mind that harshness and chains were not the proper remedies for the insane, but that much might be done in the treatment of this affliction by kindness, gentleness, and especially by healthy occupation.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1887 

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