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Before we proceed to mention the remedies for mania, or the highest grade of general mad- ness, it will be necessary to mention the means of establishing a complete government over pa- tients afiiicted with it, and thus, by securing their obedience, respect, and affections, to enable a physician to apply his remedies with ease, cer- tainty and success. The first thing to be done, to accomplish these purposes, is to remove the patient firom his family, and from the society of persons whom he has been accustomed to command, to a place where he will be prevented from injuring himself and others. — ^If there be objections to removing him to a public or private mad-house, or if this be im- practicable, the patient should be confined in a chamber, in which he has not been accustomed