Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Rules and List of the Present Members of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane: And the Prize Essay Entitled the Progressive Changes Which Have Taken Place Since the Time of Pinel in the Moral Management of the Insane, and the Various Contrivances Which Have Been Adopted Instead of Mechanical Restraint
Our object in the following Essay is to present, in a dispassionate manner, the facts relative to the history of the progressive changes which have taken place since the time of Pinel in the Moral Management of the Insane, and the various contrivances which have been adopted instead of Mechanical Restraint.
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