Had my sketch comprised France as well as England, I should have attempted to give a description of the work he performed in Paris. But I must not be tempted to go beyond my subject, and as a matter of fact the course of French and English reform in the treatment of the insane was entirely distinct and independent.[139]
[100] "By Tho. Fallowes, M.D., at his House in Lambeth-Marsh, and to be had there, or at Mr. Jones's Haberdasher in Hats, over against the _Pump_ in _Chancery_ Lane, and nowhere else," 1705. A second edition appeared in 1814.
[101] In his Review for 1706 there is a "Scheme for the Management of Mad-houses," with a case of abuse.
[102] As will be seen by the date, the elder Pitt and Fox.
[103] The physician referred to at p. 87.
[105] "The Early History of Charles James Fox," by G. O. Trevelyan, 1880.
[107] "Lady Chatham also, when writing confidentially to Lord Shelburne in the autumn of 1767, observes, 'I wish I could say there was any material change in the state of my Lord's health, but we are forbid to expect that, until he can have a fit of gout.'"
[108] "History of England from the Peace of Utrecht," vol. v. pp. 166, 188 (edit. 1853).
[110] See "Evidence before the House of Commons." See also "Debates on the Regency," Hansard, vol. xxvii.
[111] "American Journal of Insanity," July, 1855.
[112] See the last edition, corrected by himself (1780), of his "Primitive Physic, or an Easy and Natural Method of curing most Diseases."
[114] "The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations," by John Howard, F.R.S., 3rd edit., 1784.
[115] Ray, _American Journal of Insanity_, vol. iv. p. 112.
[116] "Review of the Early History of the Retreat," by S. Tuke. 1846.
[117] "Lettre addressée aux Rédacteurs de la Bibliothèque Britannique sur un nouvel établissement pour la guerison des Aliénés" (1798). Par Dr. Delarive, p. 29.
[118] "Review of the Early History of the Retreat," p. 14.
[119] The physician who gave his name to the well-known solution of arsenic. Author of a treatise on Arsenic, 1786, and one on Rheumatism in 1795. Jepson resigned in 1822, and died in 1836.
[120] "Description of the Retreat," by S. Tuke, p. 62.
[122] The _British Review_ (vol. vi. No. xii.), in reviewing this book, observed: "In 1813 Mr. Samuel Tuke published his 'Description of the Retreat,' the celebrated work, the title of which we have placed among others at the head of our article.... The Retreat has been conducted from the beginning upon the principle that the utmost practicable degree of gentleness, tenderness, and attention to the comforts and feelings of the patients was in the first place due to them as human beings; and in the next place was infinitely the most promising means of effecting their recovery. The object of this work of Mr. Tuke was to describe the system of management which had been pursued in the Retreat; to make known the success which had attended it; and to point out more distinctly than had ever yet been done, the principle upon which that management was founded (the principle of gentleness, and of regard to the feelings of the patients) as the grand principle which ought to regulate the management of every establishment of the kind. The service which Mr. Tuke professed to render to the public by his book was assuredly of importance, and his book has performed it well.... In having pointed out this as the governing principle, he has rendered a service to humanity of the greatest importance. It is this characteristic circumstance which will render the publication of his book an era in the history of the treatment of this calamity. The book has already met with great and almost universal attention. It has by the nation been much more than approved; it has been applauded and admired."