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ought to be speedily reported to a plurality of official men. The arrangements required in lunatic hospitals have re- 

 This is necessary for ascertaining, to the reasonable satis- cently become a subject of attentive study, and it is hoped 

 faction of all parties, whether the insanity is evident; and will be soon perfectly understood. The comfort of the 

 cases will sometimes occur that bear a very questionable situation, the security of the patients, and the prevention 

 aspect, and require frequent visits, and the minute observa- of mischief, are requisites in them all. More particular 

 tion of a sagacious and experienced person, before that care is required in those intended lor the reception of re- 

 point can be determined. On this account facilities should cent cases, which admit of some hopes of recovery. An 

 be afforded for obtaining information, from respectable hospital for the curable insane requires, besides the circum- 

 jieiphbours, of all the previous circumstances that are like- stances now mentioned, much more assiduous medical at- 

 ly to throw' light on such cases. Wherever motives to un- tendance, greater address on the part of the keeper, and 

 just confinement might be supposed possible, the case various arrangements for separating the different classes of 

 should be investigated with particular care. Persons of patients, for presenting to their feelings and thoughts only 

 property, being most liable to cruel imposition in this those objects which have an unexceptional tendency, and 

 particular, should be provided with the best legal pro- providing them with salutary employment. Perhaps such 

 tection. institutions ought not to be committed exclusively to the 



2. Another object is, to provide for the confinement of care of one medical person. Or, if this is thought neces- 

 all those persons whose mental condition renders that mea- sary for preventing jarrings, provision should be made for 

 sure necessary. On this point, delicacy towards persons extended communications on the progress of each case, 

 who show symptoms of incipient derangement, and towards and frequent consultations on the minutiae of the treatment, 

 their friends, requires that much should be left to private Without this, the due interest in the object is apt to decline, 

 discretion. There is no doubt, however, that wandering and the practice is in danger of degenerating into an indo- 

 lunatics ought to be attended to ; that the mischievous lent routine. 



should be placed under restraint; and that, for obvious rea- Insanity is treated in the works of Hippocrates, Celsus, 

 sons, no females in this unfortunate situation should be al- Aretaeus, Van Swicten, Cullen, and the greater part of al- 

 lowed to go at large. cient and modern systematic writers on Medicine See 



3. A third object is, to secure the best treatment to the more particularly Arnold on Insanity. Battle's Treatise on 

 insane who are placed in confinement. Even those who Madness- Haslam on Madness and Melancholy. Illustra- 

 are really insane, especially persons of superior rank, are tions of Madness, by ditto. Rush on Mental Derangement. 

 liable to be treated with studied carelessness from merce- Cox's Observationsfon Insanity. Crichton on Mental .De- 

 nary motives operating upon those in whose charge they rangement. Perfect's Select Cases of Insanity Mons. Pi- 

 are placed, and from the base antipathies or the rapacity of nel sur I' Alienation Mentale. Hallaran on Insanity. G. 

 relations. Carelessness, mean resentment, and a brutal N. Hill on the Prevention and Cure of Insanity. Spurz- 

 disposition to abridge, as much as possible, the business of heim on Insanity. The article Folic in the Dictionnaire des 

 a receptacle for the insane, have too often been productive Sciences Medicales. Dr. Powel's paper on the Transac- 

 of inhuman usage towards all descriptions of insane per- tions of the London College of Physicians. Also the Re- 

 sons. These evils can only be prevented by an assiduous ports ot the Committee of the House of Commons for con- 

 system of thorough and frequent inspection. Much advan- sidering the regulation of mad-houses ; and the pamphlets 

 tage has arisen from some recent enactments providing of Stark, Tuke, and others, on Lunatic Asylums. The 

 for the inspection of such houses. But this inspection, in Annual Reports of the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum, being 

 order to produce the desired effect, ought to be at least generally interesting and instructive, may be perused with 

 weekly, and the inspectors ought to have, without giv- advantage. (H. D.) 



ing warning, immediate access to all parts of such esta- 

 blishments. 



INSECTA. 



t'oR the external anatomical structure, &c. see Zool- 

 ogy. 



Order DIPTERA. 



The characters of this order, and of the tribes of which 

 it is composed, were given under the article Entomo- 

 logy. 



Sect. I. Proboscidea. 



Tribe I. Tipulahides. 



A. Antenna fil form or setaceous, longer than the head. 

 Stirfis 1. Ocelli none ; antennae very hairy ; eyes large; 

 rostrum tubular, long. 

 Vol. XI. Part I. 



Genus DCLXXXI. Culex, of authors. 



Sft. 1 Pi/iiens of authors. The common gnat. 

 Stirfis 2. Ocelli none ; antennae very hairy ; eyes large; 

 rostrum very short, terminated by two lips. Two anterior 

 legs at a distance from the others. 



Genus DCLXXXII. Corethra, Meig. Illig. Latr. 



Antennae fourteen-jointed ; the basilar joints conic- 

 ovoid ; of the male with fasciculi of hairs ; with simple 

 hairs on the females; the two last joints attenuated, elong- 

 ated-. 



S/t. I, Culiciformis. Meig. 



Genus DCLXXXIII. Tanypus, Meig. Illig. Latr. 



Antennae fourteen jointed, very plumose, monUiform, 

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