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sont traités avec toute l'humanité et tous les soins imaginables, et à Manchester on en a bâti un depuis peu, où, d'apres le compte qui en a été rendu, les succes ont été étonnans."
In Observations on Insanity, by John Haslam, Apothecary to Bethlem Hospital, 1798, the moral treatment recommended is kindly and not unwise. (I have not seen the Edition of 1794.)
It seems as if the treatment of lunatics in Bethlehem 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 altogether degenerate representatives of their once famous order.
