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in the actions of infane people. They fliould be made to 
rife,-and to take exercife and food, at Hated times. In¬ 
dependently of luch regularity contributing to health, it 
alfo renders them much more eafily managable. Concern¬ 
ing their diet, it is merely necelfary to obferve, that it 
Ihould be light, and eafy of digeltion. The proper- quan¬ 
tity mull be direfted by the good fenfe of the fuperin- 
tendant, according to the age and vigour of the patient, 
and proportioned to the degree of bodily exercife he may 
be in the habit of ufing ; taut they fliould never be fuf- 
fered to live too low, efpecially while they are under a 
courfe of phylic. The diet of Bethlem-hofpital allows 
animal food three times a-week ; and on the other days 
bread with cheefe, or occafionally butter, together with 
milk-pottage, rice-milk, &c. Thofe who are regarded as 
incurable patients might be indulged in a greater latitude 
of diet, but this fliould never be permitted to border on 
intemperance. To thofe who are in circumftances to af¬ 
ford fuch comforts, wine may be allowed in moderation ; 
and the criterion of the proper quantity will be, that 
which does not affedl the temper of the lunatic, that 
which does not exafperate his averfions, or render his 
philofophy obtrufive. 
Although it feems rational Jn all ftates of madnefs, 
that temperance fnould be ftri< 5 lly enjoined, yet an author 
of the prefent day Heps out of the trodden path, and fe- 
rioufly advifes us, in difficult cafes, to drown lunacy in 
intoxication ; and, ftrange as it may appear, has taught 
us to await the feaft of Reafon from the orgies of Bac¬ 
chus: “The converfion of religious melancholy into fu¬ 
rious madnefs is a frequent occurrence, and is generally' 
followed by recovery. This has fuggelted the propriety, 
in fome cafes that have refilled more common means, of 
producing a degree of excitement by means of ltimuli, 
in faff, keeping the patient for days in fuccefion in a fate of in¬ 
toxication, which has often occafioned an alleviation of 
fymptoms, and fometimes reftored the fufferers to reafon.” 
Cox's PraElical Obfervations on Infanity, p. 42. 
To conclude.—It will be ieen, by a reference to the 
Table at p. 115, that of infane perfons admitted into 
Bethlem-hofpital, of every age and under every degree of 
infanity, about one in three is difeharged cured. In pri¬ 
vate madhoufes, w'ehave reafon to believe, the proportion 
of iuccefsful cafes is not fo great. When the reader con¬ 
trails this llatement with the account recorded in the Re¬ 
port of the Committee appointed to examine the Phyfi- 
cians who have attended his prefent Majelly, he will ei¬ 
ther be inclined to deplore the unlkilfulnels or mifma- 
nagement which has prevailed among thofe medical per- 
fons who have directed the treatment of mania in the 
largelt public inllitution in this kingdom of its kind, 
compared with the fuccefs which has attended the private 
practice of an individual ; or to require fome other evi¬ 
dence, than the bare aflertion of the man pretending to 
have performed fuch cures. It was depofed by that re¬ 
verend and celebrated phyfician, that, “ of patients placed 
under his care within three months after the attack of 
the difeafe, nine out of ten had recovered ; and alfo that the 
age was of no fignirication, unlefs the patient had been 
affiidted before with the fame malady.” See the Report, 
part ii. p. 25* 57 , 59 - 
This llatement excites no little allonilhment in Dr. 
Pinel and Mr. Haflam. The latter obferves, “How little 
foever I might be difpofed to doubt fuch a bold, unpre¬ 
cedented, and marvellous, account, yet I mult acknow¬ 
ledge, that my mind would have been much more fatis- 
lied as to the truth of that affertion, had it been plauli- 
bly made out, or had the circumltances been otherwife 
than feebly recollected by that very Iuccefsful prafti- 
tioner. Medicine has generally been eiteemed a progreffive 
feience, in which its profelfors have confefied themfelves 
indebted to great preparatory Itudy and long fubfequent 
experience for the knowledge they have acquired j but, 
in the cafe to which we are now alluding, the outjet of the 
doctor's practice w as marked with fuch fplendid fuccefs, 
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that time and obfervation have been unable to increafe it. 
This alloniffiing number of cures lias been effedled by 
the vigorous agency of remedies, which others have not 
hitherto been fo fortunate as to difeover ; by remedies, 
which, when remote caufeshave been operating for twen- 
ty-feven years, fuch as weighty bufinefs, fevere exercife, 
too great abftemioufnefs, and little reft, are poiTefi'ed of 
adequate power diredlly to meet and counteract fuch 
caufes.” See the Report, p. 54- 
Dr. Pinel fpeaks of thefe wonderful cures in the fol¬ 
lowing terms : “ I cannot help congratulating thofe gen- 
tlemen, who feel no difficulties in the treatment of any 
difeafe to which the human frame is fubject, and who are " 
ever ready to entertain 11s with the relation of their in¬ 
comparable fuccefs. Oftentation like this appears 10 be 
didlated by a fpirit of empiricifm unworthy the character 
of perfons who have juftly attained to public efteem and 
celebrity. We are informed, that Dr. Willis cures nine 
lunatics out of ten. The doflor, however, gives us no 
infight into the nature and peculiarities of the cafes in 
which he has failed of fuccefs ; and, if his failure in the 
cafe of tire queen of Portugal had not been made a fub¬ 
ject of public notoriety, it likewife would probably have 
been buried, in the profoundeft filence. He who culti¬ 
vates the fcience of medicine as a branch of natural hif- 
tory purfues a more frank and open fyftem of conduit, 
nor feeks to conceal the obftacles which he meets with in 
his courfe : what he difeovers he feels no'relmflance to 
ihow : and the difficulties which he cannot mailer he 
leaves, with the impreflion of his hand upon them, for the 
benefit of his fuccefiors in the fame route.” 
We cannot finally conclude this article without again 
acknowledging our great obligations to Mr. Haflam’s 
excellent publication. Mr. Haflam deals a 1 molt exclu- 
fively in fails, as be brings his own recorded cafes in 
confirmation of whatever he advances. If he propofes any 
hypothetical opinion, it is always upon fuch good grounds, 
and at the lame time with fo much modefty, that we have 
no hefitation in recommending his work to the oerufal of 
every one who would wilh to gain aq inlight into the na¬ 
ture and progrefs of this fhocking diforder. 
INSA'TIABLEvtfis?/. [ irfatiabilis , Lat.] Greedy beyond 
meafure; greedy fo as not to be fatisfied. 
INSA'T I ABLENESS, J. Greedinefs not to beappeafed. 
—Some men’s hydropic vfatiablenefs had learned to thirft 
the more, by how much more they drank. King Charles. 
INSA'TIABLY, adv. With greedinefs not to be ap- 
peafed.—They were extremely ambitious, and infaliably 
covetous; and therefore no impreflion, from argument or 
miracles, could reach them. South. 
INSA'TlATE, adj. Greedy fo as not to be fatisfied : 
Too oft has pride, 
And hellilh difcord, and infatiale thirft 
Of others’ rights, our quiet .difeompos’d. Phillips. 
INSA'TIATED, adj. Unfatisfied; greedy beyond fa- 
tiety. Scott. 
INSA'TIATENESS, f. The Hate of being unfatisfied j 
the quality of being unlktisfied. 
INSATI'ETY, f. The Hate or quality of being unfa¬ 
tisfied. 
INSATISFAC'TION,/. Want; unfatisfied Hate. A 
word not in ufe. —It is a profound contemplation in nature, 
to confider of the emptinefs or injatisfadtion of feveral bo¬ 
dies, and of their appetite to take in others. Bacon. 
INSA'TIVE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary-to, and faints, 
fown.] Unfown. Cole. 
INSAT'URABLE, adj. \ihfaturabilis, Lat.] Not to be 
glutted ; not to be filled. 
INSCH, a town of Scotland, and burgh of a barony in 
Aberdeen : ten miles north-well of Inverary. 
IN'SCHI, f. in botany. See Amomum. 
INSCI'ENCE,yi [from indent.] Ignorance. Bailey. 
INSCI'ENT, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and fei- 
entia, fcience.] Ignorant. Cole. 
INSCIEN TIOUS, 
