DOMESTIC GUIDE, IN CASES OF INSANITY. POINTING OUT THE CAUSES, MEANS OF PREVENTING, AND PROPER TREATMENT, OF THAT DISORDER. Recommended to private families, and the notice of the Clergy. "Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ?" SHAKESPEARE. NEWCASTLE : PRINTED AND SOLD BY C. CHESTER; SOLD ALSO, BY CROSBY ADVERTISEMENT. IF it be proper to diffuse the general knowledge of any Disease, it must be so of INSANITY. It is a most dreadful malady; and it is of the utmost importance to take it in time. The opprobrium attached to it, fre quently prevents the friends of the afflicted making time ly application for advice; the nature of the complaint prevents the sufferers themselves doing it; and the symptoms which precede it, though often sufficiently apparent to those possessing some little knowledge of such cases, and who can be constantly in their company, are not to be ascertained during the occasional interviews of medical men, who have other practice to attend to. Besides, the successful treatment of it depends so much upon proper management, not within the province of the medical attendant, that there is scarce a gentleman of the faculty to be found, but what would gladly give up this part of his practice. |