Some Aspects of the “Moral Treatment” of the Insane Up to 1854

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I should like to congratulate the Council of the Section on their decision to devote an evening to a historical subject. I cannot, I fear, congratulate them on their choice of a speaker, for I have done no more than scratch the surface of a very obvious period in the history of psychiatry. However, any sort of historical paper must be better than none, for as far as I have been able to ascertain no such paper has ever been read in this Section, with the exception of the Presidential Address delivered by the late Dr. Hubert Norman. Until a few months ago, exactly the same was true of the Section of the History of Medicine, but in recent months we have had two welcome and refreshing papers by Dr. Burns and Dr. Zelmanowits. We have had, too, the brilliant Maudsley Lectures by Prof. Lewis and Dr. Rees Thomas. Perhaps we may take it that these are signs of a renewed interest in the history of our specialty. I am sure that no branch of medicine needs it more.

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