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Vide p. 331.
THE
ANATOMY OF SUICIDE:
BY
FORBES WINSLOW,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, LONDON;
AUTHOR OF “PHYSIC AND PHYSICIANS.”
London:
HENRY RENSHAW, 356, STRAND.
SOLD BY CARFRAE & SON, EDINBURGH;
AND FANNIN & CO., DUBLIN.
1840.
TO
JAMES JOHNSON, ESQ., M.D.
PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE LATE KING,
ETC. ETC.
This Work is dedicated,
AS A TESTIMONY OF RESPECT FOR HIS HIGH PROFESSIONAL ATTAINMENTS,
AND AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE
ADVANTAGES DERIVED FROM A PERUSAL OF THE MANY ABLE WORKS
WITH WHICH HE HAS ENRICHED
THE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF HIS COUNTRY.
London,—May, 1840.
PREFACE.
This treatise had its origin in the following circumstance:—Afew months ago, the author had the honour of readingbefore the Westminster Medical Society, a paper on “SuicideMedically considered,” which giving rise to an animateddiscussion, and evolving an expression of the opinions ofseveral eminent professional men, excited at the time muchinterest.
It was the author’s object in his paper to establish a fact,he believes, of primary importance,—that the disposition tocommit self-destruction is, to a great extent, amenable tothose principles which regulate our treatment of ordinarydisease; and that, to a degree more than is generally supposed,it originates in derangement of the brain and abdominalviscera.
Notwithstanding, however, these points were not considered