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INSANITY:
ITS CAUSES AND PREVENTION
BY HENRY PUTNAM STEARNS, M.D. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, HARTFORD, CONN.; LECTURER ON INSANITY IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF YALE COLLEGE, ETC., ETC.
“It is the mynde that makes good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore.” Spenser—Faerie Queene, Book XI, Canto IX.
NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS 27 & 29 WEST 23D STREET 1883
Copyright by G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS 1883
Press of G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York
TO JOHN SIBBALD, M.D., F.R.S.E., COMMISSIONER IN LUNACY FOR SCOTLAND, IN PLEASANT REMEMBRANCE OF A PORTION OF OUR STUDENT-LIFE PASSED TOGETHER, THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED WITH SINCERE REGARD BY HIS FRIEND, THE AUTHOR.