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On the State of Lunacy and the

Legal Provision for the Insane

 

ON THE STATE OF LUNACY AND

 THE LEGAL PROVISION FOR THE

INSANE, WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND
ORGANIZATION OF ASYLUMS.

 

BY JOHN T. ARLIDGE, M.B., A.B. (Lond.), LICENTIATE

 OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; ASSOCIATE OF

KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON; PHYSICIAN TO THE WEST OF LONDON HOSPITAL; FORMERLY MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF ST.

 LUKE’S HOSPITAL, AND PHYSICIAN TO THE SURREY
DISPENSARY,

 ETC.

 

LONDON:  JOHN CHURCHILL, NEW BURLINGTON

STREET. 1859.

 

 

PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, RED LION COURT,

FLEET STREET.

 

 

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL

OF SHAFTESBURY, CHAIRMAN OF THE

COMMISSION OF LUNACY, WHOSE LONG-CONTINUED

 AND UNTIRING EFFORTS IN BEHALF OF THE INSANE HAVE

EARNED FOR HIM THE HIGHEST ESTEEM AND ADMIRATION OF ALL

 WHO FEEL INTERESTED IN THE WELFARE OF THAT CLASS OF THE AFFLICTED, THIS TREATISE IS, BY

PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS LORDSHIP’S MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, THE AUTHOR.