Jeffrey's remarks on Swift's conduct to
Vanessa, 356.

Johnston, Samuel, religious monomania
of, 282,283.

Journal, British, of Psychological Medi-
cine, by Dr. Winslow; encomium on
by Sociéte Medico-Psychologique de
Paris, 344.

Journal of Insanity, the American, 398.
Jurisprudence, medical, 331.
Judicial insanity, 630.

Junod, Dr., his exhausted air boot, 627.
in relation to insanity, 468.
Juvenile delinquency and degeneration
in the upper classes of society, 428.

Kant, double origin of ideas, 64.
Labatt, on the use und abuse of restraint
in the management of the insane, by
Dr. Hamilton Labatt, 240, 262.

his opinion on restraint ambi-
guous, not sufficiently specific, 252.
general opinion of his work, 253.
Labour, organization of, for the insane,
167.

Lady, rational old, anecdote of, 87.
Lallemand, on spermatorrhoea, or the
psychology of the reproductive func-
tions, 1.

extreme, and widely extended
range of subjects treated by him, 2.
importance of the work to so-

Life, what it is, 68.

an independent principle, 72, 73.
and organization, Dr. Barclay on,59.
principle of, distinct from that of
soul and body, 74.

Lima, fashionable amusements at, 242.
Lincoln hospital for lunatics, first adopted
the non-restraint as a system, 254.
Literary notice, 188.

Logic, its formulæ not suited to melan-
cholic patients, 282.

Lunacy, law of, defective state of in Ire
land, 397.

Lunatic asylums in America, 398.
in Ireland, Lords,
House of, submit five propositions, for
the protection and security of the in-
sane there, 389.
Lunatics, lectures to, 414.

not criminal, committed to gaol
in 1847-1848 in Ireland, 390.

insufficient accommodation for
in Ireland, 394.

and wandering idiots in Ireland,
intermarriages among, 394.

capable of paying a small sum,
accommodation wanted for, 395.
law of, 178, 186.

amendments thereon, let-
ter to Editor of Morning Chronicle,
by Dr. Winslow, 182.

reply to, 185.

counter reply by Dr.

Winslow, 186.

additional remarks of
editor, exact nature of the question
for discussion proposed, 187.

defective condition of, in

olden times, 241.

revolution in management
of, altogether of recent date, 241.
principle of restraint en-
tirely to be discarded from, 249.

Madness very widely diffused according
to popular language, 226, 264.

and reason not incompatible, 276.
Magnetism, animal, sympathy, the soul
of, 519.

Male line, in, perfect forms of cerebral
organization rarely transmitted, 13.
Mania, acute, 163.

a potu, Indians, exempt from, 416.
peculiar to English, Irish, and
Germans, 416.

rare amongst Spanish, French,
and negroes, 416.

Maine, (district of, in America), mode of
determining the admission of sup-
posed lunatics into asylnms, 408.

Maine, (district of, in America), impor-
tant and judicious novel mode of pro-
cedure in cases of plea of insanity, 408.

general law against detention of
insane in gaols or Houses of Cor-
rection, 410.

Massachussets, legislature of, grants
2500 dollars for experiments in train-
ing ten idiots, 404.

Marriage, less a physical impulse than
a psychological relation, 7.
Married state, calls forth the exercise of
self command, 7.

reflexions on, 6, 7.
Marriages amongst lunatics and wan-
dering idiots in Ireland, 394.
Mayo, Dr., on popular superstitions, 512.
character of the work, 514.
Medical men, only to be appointed to
Irish lunatic asylums, 397.

jurisprudence, 331.
Medico-legal investigation, 344.
Melancholy, cured by severe bodily in-
juries, 169.

Membranes false, of arachnoid, source
of, 128.

not the result of sanguineous
effusions, 129.
Memoirs on psychology, published on
the continent in 1846, 1847, 134.
Men of genius, the insanity of, 262.
Meningitis, acute, tubercular in the adult,
168.

acute, rare in children, 45.
rapidly fatal, 45.

symptoms of, 45.

diagnosis of, 46.

- principle of, distinct from that of
life, 76.

and matter, belief of existence
of, rest on same ultimate principles,
312.

immateriality of, existence of
the Deity, and vital principles, theory
of, closely interwoven, 59.

impairment of, from softening of
the brain, monograph on, by Dr.
Winslow,

Miscarriages, causes of occasional, in
the lower orders, 9.

Months, admission for insanity, accord -
ing to, in Bloomingdale Asylum, 198.
Moral laws, violation of, 20.
Morell's reflections on ideas attached to
Spinoza, theory of a first cause, 64.
Mortality in insanity, 410.
mania, 410.
monomania, 410.
lypomania, 410.
in dementia, 410.

ratio of in Northern State of

system, sympathetic nerve, ap-
pendage of, 307.

Nerves and nervous maladies, pathology
of, by Sir George Lefevre, 90.
Neuroses, on the blood in, 118.
Nomenclature of insanity, extreme dif-
ficulty of, 215.

Nostalgia, a cause of insanity, 213.
Nott, Dr., characteristics of white ne-
groes and mulattoes, 415.
Novel reading, three cases of insanity
from, 215.

Nottidge versus Ripley, trial of, 630.
Nurses, vile and vicious practices of, 26.
Nymphomania, cured by tartar emetic
ointment, 141.

Objections to effects of pressure on cir-
culation within the brain, 38.
Opinions on origin of false membranes
in arachnoid, 128.
Opium, in sedative treatment of in-
sanity, 320.

cases of mania in which it
should be given, 320.

Orchideal discharge, and sexual, effects
contrasted, 22.

Organization, not the cause of life, ac-
cording to Coleridge, 69.

illustrated, 69.

Origin of Swift's vertigo accounted for,
by Dr. Beddoes, 354.
Orleans, New, description of Charity
Hospital there, 416.

frequency of mania a potu, in
the lunatic department there, 416.
Orrery's Lord, remarks on Swift's anti-
cipation of his lunacy, 364.

his description of intel-
lectual character of Stella, 357.

Padded room for the insane, 259.
Paganini, his talent, and what it cost
him, 278.

Palsy, general, in the insane, remarks
on, 411.

less prevalent in America than in
Europe, 412.

- on the increase, 412.

more common in men than women,
411.

dangers attending oft-repeated ab-
stractions of blood in, 346.
Pantheism, German, 58.

of ancients and Germans, 61.
of philosophy and poetry dis-
tinguished, 62.
Paralysis, idiopathic, 155.

of tongue cured by galvano-
puncture, 162.

complete, cured by cold-
bathing and urtication, 168.
Partial insanity, Lord Brougham on,

Philosophy, the, of animated nature, on
the laws and actions of the nervous
system, by Dr. G. C. Holland, 555.
Phlebitis in puerperal women, 153.
Phrenology, fallacies of, 539.
Physical and metaphysical sciences, 309.
laws, violation of, 20.

properties of matter essentially
vital, according to Coleridge, 68.

and metaphysical conditions
mutually opposed, 13.
Physiology, natural theology, and other
sciences, the relation between, 309.

intermediate between phy-
sical and metaphysical sciences, 309.
Picture, dreadful, of present state of
lunatics in Ireland, 391.
Pinel, triumphant success of, removing
the fetters from the insane, 247.
- rate of mortality by, from insanity,

410.

Plea of insanity, 331.

novel and important mode of
precedure in judicial cases, 408.

surveillance proposed in cases
of, and suggestions by the editor, 409.
Poetic character close relation to the
insane state, 262.

Pollock, Chief Baron, comments on his
observations relative to laws of lunacy,
564.

Pomade of the sorcerers, 231.
Ponzinibius advocates the theory of
errors of the senses, in opposition to
the belief in demons, 234.
Possession, supposed demonical, de-
scribed by the present sufferer, 462.
Power of organism not fixed, 557.
Presentiment of insanity in Swift, 364.
Pressure, injurious effects of external
pressure on the brain, 37, 38.

never to be applied to head of
newly born infant, 39.
Pritchard, Dr., death of, 188.
Principle of life, distinct from that of

mind or soul, 76.

Punishment, corporal, for insanity, em-
ployed in Grand Cairo, 244.

Raisonnante, La Folie, interest con-
nected with, 276.

Ratio, between males and females in
Bloomingdale Asylum, 200.
Re-action, in favour of non-restraint
system, theory of, 246.

Reason and madness not always incom-
patible, 276.

Reichenbach, explanations offered by,
of mysterious coincidences, 523.
Reid, Dr. James, on the nervous system
and nervous disorders, 281.
Reflexions on married state, 6, 7.
Relation, subsisting between degree of
deformity of cranium and imperfect
state of intellect, 36.

of thought to matter, 556.
Religion, as a moral course of insanity,

212.

Religious opinions, character of, modify
forms of insanity, 224-225.
Remorse, insanity from, 213.
Renovation of body at climateric periods,

78.

Report of inspectors of lunatic asylums
in Ireland, melancholy extract from,
390, 391.
Reproductive functions, physiology of,
by Lallemand, 1.

Restraint, on the use and abuse of, in
the treatment of the insane, by Dr.
Labatt, 240.

Restraint, little, employed in Irish asy-
lams, 256.

only recently 1emoved on
general principles, 245.

triumphant success of Pinel

in removing, 247.