The Cause. 



ce malade. Les facult^s intellectuelles reprirent 

 une nergie nouvelle, et une preuve de dix-huit 

 mois me mit & meme de constater une guerison, 

 qui ne s'est pas dementie depuis six ans, et qui 

 a non seulement permis a ce jeune homme d'etre 

 rendu a la libert, mais de pouvoir remplir au 

 dehors une fonction honorable. (Morel : " Mai. 

 Ment." p. 176, quoted by M. Mauriac in " Jaccoud 

 Dictionnaire.") 



The imbecile does not often meet with such 

 treatment as this young man received from Dr. 

 Zimmerman, for few men possess the patience 

 exhibited by him. These unfortunate people 

 must be in a very degraded condition, and it 

 must be a great strain on those who have to deal 

 with them, but at the same time it is reasonable 

 to conclude that if more dependence were placed 

 upon moral treatment and less upon mechanical 

 restraints, results would be more satisfactory. 



Here is a specimen of the treatment meted out 

 in some establishments : 



" Bromide of potassium given freely and con- 

 tinuously, takes away sexual desire and com- 

 petence, but it produces great weakness and 

 emaciation and cannot be continued for any 

 length of time, therefore it is only a temporising 

 remedy, and as far as we know there is no per- 

 manent cure. We have used Faradisation to 

 the spine with benefit, but this also was tem- 

 porising 



" Treatment is to prevent the habit, if possible, 

 but no means have yet been devised by which 

 this can be done. Blistering the prepuce we 

 have found useful, but only for a time. Dr, 



