An Inquiry Concerning the Indications of Insanity: With Suggestions for the Better Protection and Care of the Insane. E-book. Formato PDF John Conolly   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

For many years past, during five of which I held the appointment of Inspecting Physician to the Lunatic Houses for the County of Warwick, I have availed myself, both in this and in other countries, of such opportunities as presented themselves to me of examining the correctness of the opinions contained in the following pages.In offering them for the examination of others, my desire is to render the recognition of insanity less difficult, by showing in what it differs from those varieties of mind which approach the nearest to it; and to point out those circumstances which, even in persons decidedly insane, can alone justify various degrees of restraint.That an inquiry of a difficult nature, and opposed, in this country, by peculiar obstacles, must be incomplete, I freely admit.

The Treatment of the Insane: Without Mechanical Restraints. E-book. Formato PDF John Conolly   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

When the close of active professional exertions is felt to be approaching, and the pressure of that period "aut jam urgentis aut certe adventantis senectutis" becomes perceptible, a natural wish arises in the mind of any man who has been especially engaged in what he regards as a good and useful work to leave the work, if not finished, yet secure; or if not yet secure, at least advanced by his labours, and as little incomplete as the shortness of his life, and the limitation of his opportunities, permit.