| Description | Typescript account of a lecture given by Norman, continuing from the previous lecture on the subject of force feeding. Norman then returns to his previous topic of why it may be necessary to commit a patient to an asylum, giving a number of possible reasons including suicide, self-harm, 'public danger' and a tendancy to 'offend against public decency'. Norman then discusses a number of drugs that can be used in the treatment of 'excitedness' the 'wet pack' and baths. |