ON THE

CAUSES, FORMS, SYMPTOMS,

AND

TREATMENT,

MORAL AND MEDICAL,

OF

INSANITY.

BY GEORGE MAN BURROWS, M.D.

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON,

ETC. ETC.

LONDON:

THOMAS AND GEORGE UNDERWOOD.

M.DCCC.XXVIII.

PREFACE.

IT has been said that evil

;" I fear, therefore, that I have committed more than one offence. For, besides that this book is bulky, it was promised years ago.

In respect to its size, I have nothing to plead in justification but the variety and extent of the subjects which a general view of insanity properly embraces.

I might offer many common-place reasons for the delay; and one has certainly occurred, which not only deprived me of the means of proceeding, but almost induced me wholly to relinquish my intention:-a thief stole my porte-feuille, containing all my memoranda, extracts, remarks, &c., and thus divested me in a moment of the labour of years.

However, my former work, entitled, "An Inquiry into Certain Errors relative to Insanity; and their Consequences, Physical, Moral, and Civil," being long out of print, and the interest