Management of patients

The various means to be adopted in attempting the cure of insanity, for the sake of method, may be divided into moral and medical. Under the first may be ranked management, which is of the highest importance in the treatment of maniacs, in almost every case is indispensable, and has succeeded when the most active means have failed. The art of management results from experience, and the natural endowments of the practitioner: it partly consists of address; and is principally displayed by making proper impressions on the senses.

Maniacs of almost every description, are sensible to kindness and tenderness, and, in general, are to be managed and controlled with more facility by these than by harsher means, which ought never to be had recourse to but in cases of absolute necessity.

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Practical Observations on Insanity, p. 54, 56.