[135] See Dr. Hawkin’s most valuable work on Medical Statistics.
[141] Take no pleasure in the folly of an idiot, nor in the whims and fancies of a lunatic, nor in the phrensy of a drunkard; make them the object of thy love and pity, not of thy pastime: when thou, alas! beholdest them, behold how thou art indebted to Him who suffered thee not to be like them!—Retrosp. Rev. p. 185.
[142] See Observation on Dæmonology.
[143] See pages 17 and 18.
[145a] It is a principle throughout nature, that changes, and the repetition of changes give, in proportion to their repetition, a greater aptitude to their periodical recurrence.—Wine merchants say, that wine always undergoes a slight change on the annual recurrence of the original season of its fermentation.
[145b] See pages 16, 17, & 18.
[147] See Haslam on Madness, page 236.
[151] Pinel, p. 10.
[152] This was written in 1822.
[153] In seeing the patients bathe, I have been struck with the beautiful sleekness and clearness of their skins. Many of them, however, retain marks of scrofula.