History, Description and Statistics of the Bloomingdale Asylum for the InsaneEgbert, Hovey & King, Printers, 1848 - 136 pàgines |
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aggregate Almshouse attempt aunt average number Bloomingdale Asylum brain cause of mental cent City of New-York commit suicide condition Connecticut cousin curability decennium delirium tremens deranged Discharged Cured dred eight eleven Eleventh Admission Eloped employment exciting family 66 Father Fema Females five following table foregoing table four Glassblower grand-father greatest number Hence Hereditary included influence institution June labor latter laudanum maker Males Mania Melancholia ment mental alienation mental disease mental disorder Monomania months moral moral treatment nervous system New-York City nine Nova Scotia number of deaths number of patients occupation Paternal patients admitted perceived period Physicians population predisposition previous attacks proportion prussic acid re-admissions Re-admitted received recorded relatives insane request of friends residence Samuel Tuke Second Admissions SECTION sexes Sixth Admissions statistics subjoined table term thirteen tients tion Total twelve twenty to thirty uncle Unimproved whole number widowed women
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Pàgina 22 - ... of many philanthropists, in the course of the last half century, to meliorate the condition of the insane. The primary object is to treat the patients, so far as their condition will possibly admit, as if they were still in the enjoyment of the healthy exercise of their mental faculties. An important desideratum for the attainment of this object is to make their condition as boarders, as comfortable as possible...
Pàgina 86 - At length be was suddenly roused, appeared rational for a few hours, and then passed into a state of high excitement and absolute mania. A day or two afterwards he was brought to the Asylum, with his arms and legs strongly bound. When admitted he talked but little, and that little was perfectly devoid of meaning. He was highly excited, his face flushed and the veins of his head swollen ; the circulation rapid, the pulse being from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty per minute, the tongue...
Pàgina 32 - They have never, however, become proselytes to the doctrine of the absolutely entire disuse of all restraining apparatus. There are exceptions to all rules which are not governed by the invariable law of mathematics or of moral right, and no argument, however subtle or specious, or, to appearances, however strongly based, theoretically, upon benevolence, philanthropy, kindness, and the golden rule of ' doing to others as we would, under similar circumstances, that they should do unto us,' can overthrow...
Pàgina 3 - The necessity and usefulness of a public infirmary, has been so warmly and pathetically set forth, in a discourse delivered by Dr. Samuel Bard, at the commencement in May last, that his excellency, Sir Henry Moore, immediately set on foot a subscription for that purpose, to which himself and most of the gentlemen present liberally contributed.
Pàgina 21 - Comte, Burgundy, &c., conquered by Louis XIV. In each are 30 round tables, for messes of 12. There are two kitchens, one for the officers, the other for the privates.
Pàgina 23 - Hence, some physicians have recommended compulsory labor, in cases where the patient will not engage in it voluntarily. At this Asylum the patients are advised and, if possible, induced to apply themselves to some useful occupation, but no compulsory measures are resorted to for the purpose of enforcing it.
Pàgina 22 - An important desideratum for the attainment of this object is, to make their condition, as boarders, as comfortable as possible ; that they may be the less sensible of the deprivations to which they are subjected by a removal from home. Nor is it less essential to extend to them the privilege, or the right, of as much liberty, as much freedom from personal restraint as is compatible with their safety, the safety of others, and the judicious administration of other branches of curative treatment....
Pàgina 3 - The original charter title was the " Society of the Hospital in the City of New York in America...
Pàgina 28 - Powers. 3rd. A Magic Lantern. 4th. An Orrery. 5th. An Electrical Machine, with its implements. 6th. Pneumatic Trough, Receivers, Retorts and other articles used in Chemistry.
Pàgina 34 - Much pains has been taken, at this institution, to procure attendants of this character, and especially as regards the men's department, the efforts have been rewarded with a good degree of success. Nearly all the young men who have been so employed during the last few years, were from the country, and so well educated that they had been accustomed to teaching school in the winter. "It is needless to describe, in detail, the numerous advantages of attendants of this kind over those who are ignorant,...