Insanity; Its Causes, Prevention, and Cure: Including Apoplexy, Epilepsy, and Congestion of the Brain

Excerpt from Insanity; Its Causes, Prevention, and Cure: Including Apoplexy, Epilepsy, and Congestion of the Brain
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland having placed at the disposal of the President and Fellows of King and Queens College of Physicians a premium for an essay, on some subject connected with the treatment of insanity, the President and Fellows consequently selected and publicly announced "The use of Narcotics and other remedial agents calculated to produce Sleep in the treatment of Insanity." This essay, having met with the favourable notice of the President and Fellows, is now submitted to the Profession.
The importance of this subject cannot be overestimated - to induce sleep in every stage of insanity is most desirable - to procure it in incipient cases, is often to effect a cure - and in many persons, the symptoms primarily nervous, become subsequently inflammatory, if vigilantia be not arrested - many cases of insanity being entirely prevented by procuring sound and refreshing sleep.
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