Case 1
When I was a pupil at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, as my attention was much employed on the subject of insanity, I was requested by one of the sisters of the house, to visit a poor man, an acquaintance of her's, who was disorderd in his mind.  I went immediately to his house, and found the neighbour hood in an uproar. The maniac was locked in a room, raving and exceedingly turbulent. I took two men with me, and learning that he had no offensive weapons, I panted them at the door, with directions to be silent, and to keep out of sight, unless i should want their assistance.

What did Pargeter do next?
 
 

Case 2
A young lady, who resided at a village near the metropolis, had been for some weeks on a visit to a friend, at a distance from home. In a few days after her return, her natural spirits and vivacity gradually forsook her; she became pensive--morose--fond of being in her own room and alone-- she would take no nourishment unless to avoid importunities. After i had informed myself particularly respecting the family--occasional visitors in her late excursion &c. I was introduced to her room, and found her in a thoughtful posture her cheek upon her hand. She did not, for some time, seem to know that any body was in the room; at length she looked up, and the moment I caught her eye,  for, till ten I had been silent, I told her i was perfectly acquainted with the cause of her complaint, and conversed with her on those topics, I thought most suitable to her case, and at last persuaded her to come down to dinner with the rest of the family, and to drink two or three glasses of wine, and to join in the conversation of the table. I recommended an immediate change of residence--gave directions respecting diet-- exercise-- amusements
-- reading--conversation--and soon the pleasing satisfaction to be informed of the lady's complete recovery.
 

What did Pargeter think was the reason for his success in this case?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I then suddenly unlocked the door-- rushed into the room and caught his eye in an instant. The business was then done -- he became peaceable in a moment-- trembled with fear, and was governable as it was possible for a furious manman to be
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

It may be proper to remark that a thorough knowledge of the pathology was absolutely necessary in this case. The patient had taken emetics with the fetid and deobstruent gums, and antisposmodics, under a supposition that she laboured under a cachexcy. When, therefore, physicians who have not made insanity their study, meet with low, nervous, or hypochondriacal cases, they should immediately propose a consultation with one who has. By such seasonable interpositiion, the principles of the disease may be suppressed on their first appearance, and evils of the most dreadful natur prevented.