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sont traites avec toute I'liumanite et tons les soins imaginables, et a Mancliester on en a bati un depuis pen, oil, d'apres le compte qui en a 6te rendu, les succes ont et^ etonnans." In Observations on Insanity, by Jobn Haslam, Apo- thecary to Bethlem Hospital, 1798, tbe moral treatment recommended is kindly and not unwise, (I bave not seen tbe Edition of 1794.) It seems as if the treatment of lunatics in Bethle- hem Hospital had deteriorated between the end of the last century and the time of the Parliamentary Enquiry in 1814, The period was one in which the thoughts and energies of England were engrossed in war. According to Daquin {Op. cit.) the Knights of Malta were accustomed to treat their insane patients with gentleness and kindness. If so, they were not alto- gether degenerate representatives of their once famous order. 4