Insanity: Its Causes and Prevention

by Henry Putnam Stearns

INSANITY:

ITS CAUSES AND PREVENTION

BY
HENRY PUTNAM STEARNS, M.D.
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, HARTFORD, CONN.; LECTURER
ON INSANITY IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF YALE COLLEGE,
ETC., ETC.

“It is the mynde that makes good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore.” Spenser—Faerie Queene, Book XI, Canto IX.

NEW YORK
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1883

Copyright by
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
1883

Press of
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
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TO
JOHN SIBBALD, M.D., F.R.S.E.,
COMMISSIONER IN LUNACY FOR SCOTLAND, IN PLEASANT
REMEMBRANCE OF A PORTION OF OUR STUDENT-LIFE
PASSED TOGETHER, THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED
WITH SINCERE REGARD BY HIS FRIEND,
THE AUTHOR.

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