Excerpt from A Manual of Psychological Medicine and Allied Nervous Diseases: Containing the Description, Etiology, Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Insanity, With Especial Reference to the Clinical Features of Mental Diseases, and the Allied Neuroses, and Its Medico-Legal Aspects I have to express my warmest thanks to friends for aid rendered me in various ways, but more especially to Dr. Robt. J. Hess of Phila delphia, and to William]. Mann, Esq., of the New York Bar. The former has kindly made a most careful study and critical analysis of the book, and has favored me with valuable suggestions respecting the arrangement of my work of which I have taken advantage, and by correcting the sheets during their progress through the press has laid me under many obligations. The latter gentleman, my brother, kindly consented to prepare the entire abstract of the laws relating to the care and protection of the insane in every State of the Union, greatly increasing the value of the book, especially to the legal pro fession, giving it a medico - legal importance which otherwise it could not have had. 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.