On the Prevention and Treatment of Mental Disorders (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from On the Prevention and Treatment of Mental Disorders<br><br>"In England and Wales alone there are more than 30,000 decidedly insane persons, the annual cost of whose maintenance exceeds 1,000,000l. If to this we add the loss of productive labour, the cost of maintaining families thus rendered destitute, the suicidal and criminal acts resulting from insanity, the misery, anxiety, and destruction of domestic happiness which even its minor forms occasion, a mass of suffering will be presented perhaps unequalled by any other source of human affliction. And there is, probably, not a single family in this kingdom which has not, at some period within the memory of its present members, experienced the universality of this evil.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.