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" But no form of strait-waistcoat, no hand-straps, no leg-locks, nor any contrivance confining the trunk or limbs, or any of the muscles, is now in use. The coercion chairs, about forty in number, have been altogether removed from the wards; no chair of... "
The American Medical Intelligencer: A Concentrated Record of Medical Science ... - Page 359
edited by - 1841
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The Eclectic Journal of Medicine ...

1840 - 474 pages
...dress of which the sleeves terminate in a stuffed glove without divisions for the thumb and lingers. But no form of strait-waistcoat, no hand-straps, no...or limbs, or any of the muscles, is now in use. The coercion chairs, about forty in number, have been altogether removed from the wards; no chair of this...
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The Eclectic Journal of Medicine, Volume 4

John Bell - Medicine, Eclectic - 1840 - 482 pages
...glove without divisions for the thumb and fingers. But no form of strait-waistcoat, no hand-slraps, no leg-locks, nor any contrivance confining the trunk or limbs, or any of Jhe muscles, is now in use. The coercion chairs, about forty in number, have been altogether removed...
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The Journal of Mental Science, Volume 13

Psychiatry - 1867 - 646 pages
...first report to the visitors, in which he announced the entire abolition of mechanical restraint. " No form of strait-waistcoat, no hand-straps, no leglocks,...trunk or limbs or any of the muscles, is now in use," he writes in that report. For this great practical reform he had prepared himself before entering on...
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The Trial of Ebenezer Haskell, in Lunacy, and His Acquittal Before Judge ...

Ebenezer Haskell - Mentally ill - 1869 - 162 pages
...the 1st of June, 1839, and -on the 21st of September there was not a single patient in restraint. " No form of strait-waistcoat, no hand-straps, no leg-locks,...trunk or limbs, or any of the muscles, is now in use," he writes in his first report. Even at so early a period he was able to say uthat, notwithstanding...
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A Memoir of John Conolly ...: Comprising a Sketch of the Treatment of the ...

Edward Jarvis, Sir James Clark - Mental illness - 1869 - 382 pages
...patient in the asylum had been under restraint. He adds, — "no form of strait-waistcoat, no handcuffs, no leg-locks, nor any contrivance confining the trunk,...or limbs, or any of the muscles, is now in use. The coercion chairs, about forty in number, have been altogether removed from the wards." The reasons for...
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Insanity and insane asylums

California. Commission in lunacy, 1870- - 1872 - 404 pages
...not one patient has been under restraint. No form of straight waistcoat, no handcuff's, no leg locks, nor any contrivance confining the trunk or limbs, or any of the muscles, is now in use. The coercion chairs, about forty in number, have been altogether removed from the wards " (p. 20). In his...
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Journal: Appendix. Reports

California. Legislature - California - 1872 - 429 pages
...not one patient has been under restraint. No form of straight waistcoat, no handcuff's, no leg locks, nor any contrivance confining the trunk or limbs, or any of the muscles, is now in use. The coercion chairs, about forty in number, have been altogether removed from the wards " (p. 20). In his...
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The Care and cure of the insane v. 1, Volume 1

Joseph Mortimer Granville - 1877 - 372 pages
...wear a dress of which the sleeves terminate in a stuffed glove without divisions for the thumb anil fingers.* But no form of strait-waistcoat, no handstraps,...the purpose of restraint since the middle of August. The reform thus established was sweeping, but it did not at once clear away all evils. In his second...
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Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles

Daniel Hack Tuke - Insane - 1882 - 626 pages
...provided, secured round the waist by a leathern belt, fastened by a small lock. . . . No form of waistcoat, no hand-straps, no leg-locks, nor any contrivance...of the muscles, is now in use. The coercion-chairs (forty in number) have been altogether removed from the walls. . . . Several patients formerly consigned...
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Papers Read Before the Medico-Legal Society of New York from Its Organization

Medico-Legal Society, Medico-Legal Society of New York - Insanity (Law) - 1886 - 628 pages
...he announced the entire abolition of mechanical restraint. " No form of straightwaistcoat," he said, "no hand-straps, no leg-locks, nor any contrivance...or limbs or any of the muscles is now in use." The asylum at that time contained 850 patients, most of them from the different quarters of London, and...
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