Observations on Insanity / With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection

by John Haslam

By JOHN HASLAM,
LATE OF PEMBROKE-HALL, CAMBRIDGE,
MEMBER OF THE CORPORATION OF SURGEONS,
AND APOTHECARY TO BETHLEM-HOSPITAL.

“Of the uncertainties of our present state the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.” Dr. Johnson’s Rasselas.

London:
PRINTED FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON, NO. 62,
ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD;
AND SOLD BY J. HATCHARD, NO. 173, PICCADILLY.

1798.

TO THE
RIGHT WORSHIPFUL THE
PRESIDENT,
THE WORSHIPFUL THE
TREASURER, AND GOVERNORS
OF
BETHLEM-HOSPITAL.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

The following Observations are respectfully submitted to YOUR notice, as the vigilant and humane Guardians of an Institution which performs much good to society, by diminishing the SEVEREST amongst human calamities,

By,
My Lords and Gentlemen,
Your very obedient and humble Servant,
The AUTHOR.