Excerpt from Legislation on Insanity: An Address Delivered by J. Parigot, M.D., Before the New York Academy of Medicine, February 1, 1865 Isolation, if it mean the complete change of circumstances which surrounded the patient at the time the disease broke out, is good and useful; but if it mean imprisonment in a cell, I call it a brutal negation of our rights to be treated morally and medically, because it is neither the one nor' the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.