A Treatise on Insanity, in Which Are Contained the Principles of a New and More Practical Nosology of Maniacal Disorders Than Has Yet Been Offered to the Public - Exemplified by Numerous and Accurate Historical Relations of Cases From ... #223925

OF all the afflictions to which human naturiélis subject, the loss of reason is at/once the most calamitous and in terestlng. Deprived of this faculty, by vvhich man IS principally distinguished from the beasts that perish, the human form is frequently the'most remarkable attribute that he retains of his proud distinct1on. His character, as an individual of the species, is always perverted some times annihilated. His thoughts and actions are diverted.i from their usual and natural course. The chain which connected his ideas in just series and mutual subserviency.