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  OBSERVATIONS ON MADNESS AND MELANCHOLY:

  INCLUDING PRACTICAL REMARKS ON THOSE DISEASES;

  TOGETHER WITH CASES:

  AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE MORBID APPEARANCES
  ON _DISSECTION_.


  BY JOHN HASLAM,

  LATE OF PEMBROKE HALL, CAMBRIDGE;
  MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS,
  AND APOTHECARY TO BETHLEM HOSPITAL.

  _The Second Edition, considerably enlarged._

  "Of the uncertainties of our present state, the
  most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain
  continuance of reason."
                          Dr. JOHNSON'S RASSELAS.


  London:

  PRINTED FOR J. CALLOW, MEDICAL BOOKSELLER,
  CROWN COURT, PRINCES STREET, SOHO;
  BY G. HAYDEN, BRYDGES STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
  1809.




  AS A GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  FOR MANY FAVOURS,
  AN OBLATION TO SUBSISTING FRIENDSHIP,
  AND A TRIBUTE TO SUPERIOR JUDGMENT,
  EXERCISING THE PROFESSION OF MEDICINE WITH
  SKILL AND LIBERALITY:
  THE PRESENT VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY
  DEDICATED TO
  DR. THOMAS MONRO,
  A FELLOW OF THE COLLEGE, AND PHYSICIAN
  TO BETHLEM HOSPITAL.




Preface.


_The alarming increase of Insanity, as might naturally be expected, has
incited many persons to an investigation