Excerpt from Virginia Medical Monthly, Vol. 10: From April, 1883, to March, 1884, Inclusive This is equal to the views of a clergyman, in Boston, in 1836, who pronounced insanity a crime and an organized type of sin and wickedness, affirming that insane asylums were causing more insane by favoring the false notion of irresponsibility and disease. The author reasons that a condition of disease may be present, as the result of long excesses in the use of spirits, but that the early stages were always phases of vice and a low moral nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.