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THE JOURNAL

OF

PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

AND

MENTAL PATHOLOGY.

EDITED BY

FORBES WINSLOW, M. D., D. C. L. OXON.

VOL. X.

LONDON:

JOHN CHURCHILL, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

MDCCCLVII.

LONDON:

SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

230727

THE JOURNAL

OF

PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINË

AND

MENTAL PATHOLOGY.

JANUARY 1, 1857.

Part First.

Original Communications.

ART. I.-PROLONGED SHOWER-BATHS IN THE TREATMENT OF THE INSANE.*

BY THE EDITOR.

OUR readers will remember that the Commissioners in Lunacy instituted a prosecution against Mr. Charles Snape for having, as they alleged, caused the death, on the 9th of April, 1856, of a pauper patient of the name of Daniel Dolley, confined under that gentleman's care, in the male department of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, by subjecting him to a continuous shower-bath of thirty minutes' duration, and for having administered to the said Daniel Dolley, soon after his removal from the bath, and whilst in a state of vital depression, a dose of "white coloured mixture," alleged to have contained two grains of tartar-emetic. In the last number of this Journal we intimated that the grand-jury had thrown out the bill of indictment.

Pending the trial, the Committee of the Surrey County Asylum very properly suspended Mr. Snape, appointing Dr. French, ad interim, to superintend the male side of this institution. It will gratify the friends of Mr. Snape to hear that he has been reinstated into office. Six medical gentlemen of position, character, and reputation were selected to decide the question of re-nomination. Three were appointed by the Committee

A Letter to the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum, by Charles Snape, Medical Superintendent (male department), in reference to the Case of Daniel Dolley (deceased).-London: John Churchill.

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