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Insanity in Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Fletcher Beach*
Affiliation:
the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases; the Darenth Schools for Imbecile Children

Extract

Although ancient writers have given short descriptions of mental diseases affecting children, it was not until the commencement of this century that the subject began to attract attention. Since then Esquirol, Guislain, Delasiauve, and others have written on the matter, and in 1856 Le Paulmier, in a thesis, gave the most complete description of the affection which had previously been published. Numerous authors in England, Germany, and France have since 1856 written on the subject, but still there seems to be a good deal of want of knowledge regarding the mental affections of children.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1898 

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