Insanity: Its Causes and Prevention

by Henry Putnam Stearns

g. What number is that to which if ⁸⁄14 of itself be added, the sum will be 66?

h. What number is that from which if ⅓ of itself be subtracted, the remainder will be 11?

I call attention: 1st, to the amount of labor and time it will require simply to do the work of the above lesson, even supposing that a class of children from eleven to thirteen years of age have the ability, and after five hours in the school-room during the day; and 2d, to the character of some of the requirements.

[5] Before this patient left the Retreat she gave me the following schedule of her daily duties and mode of life while in school:—

“Breakfast at 7 A.M. From 7½ to 8½, did work. Studied from 8.30 to 8.55. From 9 till 1½ o’clock P.M., studied and recited. Dined at 2, and after dinner worked until 3. Then ½ hour for recreation. From 3½ till 5½ o’clock, study hours. From 5½ to 6, turns were taken by the pupils in preparing supper. Supper at 6. From 6½ to 7, recreations. From 7¼ to 9, Latin recitations and study.”

Other pupils need not have studied so much by 1½ hours.

Comment on the above is unnecessary.

[6] D. H. Tuke: “Insanity and its Prevention.”

[7] Quoted by Dr. Tuke.

[8] Since writing the above, the following, in a newspaper published in Chicago, Ill., has come to my attention: