The arrangements required in lunatic hospitals have re cently become a suhject of attentive study, and it is hoped will he soon perfectly understood. The comfoi t of the situation, the security of the patients, and the prevention of mischief, are requisites in them all. More particular care is required in those intended for the reception of re cent cases, which admit of some hopes of recovery. An hospital for the curable insane requires, besides the circum stances now mentioned, much more assiduous medical at tendance, greater address on the part of the keeper, and various arrangements for separating the different classes of patients, for presenting to their feelings and thoughts oily those objects which have au unexceptionai tendency, and providing them with salutary employment. Perhaps such institutions ought not to be committed exclusively to the care of one medical person. Or, if this is thought neces sary for preventing jarrings, provision should be made for extended communications on the progress of each case, and frequent consultations on the minutia of the treatment. Without this, the due interest in the object is apt to decline, and the practice is in danger of degenerating into an indo lent routine.
Insanity is treated in the works of Hippocrates, Celsus, Aretxus, Van Swieten, Cullen, and the greats r part of an cient and modern systematic writers on Medicine. See more particularly Arnold on Insanity. Battic's Treatise on Madness. Haslani on Madness and Melancholy. Illustra tions of Madness, by ditto. Rush on Mental Derangement Cox's Observations on Insanity Crichton on Alental De• rangement. Pt rlect's Select Cases of Insanity Mons. Pi Del sue Mentale. Hal acan on Insanity. G. N. Hid on the Prevention and Cure of Insanity. Spurz heim on Insanity. The article Folie in the Dietionnaire des Sciences Medicales. Dr. Powt is patter on the Transac tions of the London College of Physicians. Also the Re ports of the Committee of the House of Commons for con sidering the regulation of mad houses ; and the pamphlets of Stark. Tuke, and othc rs, on Lunatic Asylums. The Annual Reports of the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum, being generally interesting and instructive, may be perused with advantage. (H. D.)