The Anatomy of Suicide

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Anatomy of Suicide, by Forbes Winslow
BY FORBES WINSLOW, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, LONDON; AUTHOR OF “PHYSIC AND PHYSICIANS.”
“But is there yet no other way, besides
These painful passages; how we may come
To death, and mix with our connatural dust?
Nor love thy life, nor hate: but what thou liv’st
Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven.”
Milton.
London: HENRY RENSHAW, 356, STRAND. SOLD BY CARFRAE & SON, EDINBURGH; AND FANNIN & CO., DUBLIN. 1840.
TO JAMES JOHNSON, ESQ., M.D. PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE LATE KING, ETC. ETC. This Work is dedicated, AS A TESTIMONY OF RESPECT FOR HIS HIGH PROFESSIONAL ATTAINMENTS, AND AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE ADVANTAGES DERIVED FROM A PERUSAL OF THE MANY ABLE WORKS WITH WHICH HE HAS ENRICHED THE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF HIS COUNTRY.
London,—May, 1840.
This treatise had its origin in the following circumstance:—A few months ago, the author had the honour of reading before the Westminster Medical Society , a paper on “Suicide Medically considered,” which giving rise to an animated discussion, and evolving an expression of the opinions of several eminent professional men, excited at the time much interest.