Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Mental Illness

Publications cited:

Reid 1806

    'Dr. J. Reid observes in the last Medical Journal, that "The slightest nervous affection is a degree of insanity—from its nascent state, to its more full and perfect growth, the progress is so gradual as scarcely to be perceived. The shade of melancholy slowly and solemnly advances over the surface of the mind, until at length it produces a total eclipse of the understanding"'.