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The Non-Restraint System in the Treatment of a “Certain Class of Destructive Patients.”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

S. W. D. Williams*
Affiliation:
County Asylum, Hayward's Heath, Sussex

Extract

In the April number of the ‘Journal of Mental Science,’ the editors append a foot-note to a paper by Dr. Edgar Sheppard,∗ asking from some members of the Association the results of their experience in the treatment of the troublesome class of patients referred to in that paper, and at the same time recording their dissent from the opinions expressed by the author. Moreover, at the end of his paper Dr. Sheppard writes:-

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1867 

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References

‘On the Treatment of a certain class of Destructive Patients.’ By Edgar Sheppard, M.D., Medical Superintendent of the Male Department of Colney Hatch Asylum—‘Journal of Mental Science,’ April, 1867.Google Scholar

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