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BEWARE!!!

WE MUST INSIST THAT YOU READ THE ENTIRE REMEDIES MANUAL, FOR THERE IS DANGER IN NOT HEEDING ITS ADVICE...

One could be led astray, down the dark path of INSANITY,

or other such illnesses if one does not BEWARE, AND READ EVERY LAST BIT OF IT...

read our opinions on such matters AS INSANITY below...

and go to the mind medicine to learn more about the dark side of mentality...

this could be you, BEWARE

Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels,

has some good advice for you:

I must say that I myself have often feared that cold insanity.

I am myself disposed to fits of

melancholy, and have sometimes been in a daze.

And I must beware the reader of this

manual that they would never like to be in one of these places.

Thus you should read this

entire booklet carefully so as to keep your body and mind in tip top shape.

I find that if I

feel a bit dizzy in the head, a nice run around

the streets of Dublin do one a world of good.

It is a fast-paced modern world, and our poor minds

are stuck back in the early times,

without the ability to comprehend the dirt and grime of today.

I do believe that if I were to

die I would give some money to one of these "hospitals",

for they are in dire need of help.

As Defoe asserts, they really are hellish spots to be in and

we must reform them so

that the insane can be made well,

instead of the sane being made ill.

So I hope you take our advice to heart and read this manual.

It will help you stay well. (23)

J. Swift

At the beginning of the century, Bethlem Hospital was the only
psychiatric hospital in Britain...
Another who became governor of Bethlem in 1714 was Jonathan Swift, author
of Gulliver's Travels. He was concerned about the possibility of becoming
insane and mentioned it in his Verses on the Death of Dr Swift in 1731.
When he died in 1745 he left money to found a mental hospital, and St.
Patrick's Hospital was opened in Dublin in 1757. In his own words:
He gave the little wealth that he had
To build a home for fools and mad
And showed by one satiric touch
No nation wanted it so much.
(jones, p. 91-2)

These tools of the insane asylum

Daniel Defoe has some harsh words to say about the mental institutions:

Hello kind people. I hope that you are

indeed good and kind

people. Not folks who would send your family,

your children, your wives and sisters to the madhouses.

And why are there so

many of these horrid places, where people run about

screaming, and tortures of all kinds occur?

Because Men, and Women too I suppose, are sending

eachother, their spouses

and the like, to the madhouses

with every whim and dislike.

Men especially do this to their wives.

I understand dear gentlemen the reason one would do this,

Oh, believe me I do,

but it is surely not what a True-Born English-man,

like myself,

would ever do.

We are civilized people, and we should not be

sending eachother away to rot

in cells if we find ourselves

annoyed.

It's true maybe that there are some that are truly

crazy, but there must be some better

way to deal with them

than locking them away as a

side-show for those commoners

who come to view the crazies at Bedlam.

These madhouses are

the height of barbarity and injustice, a place of hell.

You don't want this Douche "cure"

I advise you all to be careful,

for you do not want to be put in

one of these "hospitals." Is it not enough,

to make one mad, to

be suddenly clapped up, stripped, whipped,

ill fed, and worse

used?

Thus I believe that all of

these places should be examined,

and the ability to put people

inside must be also investigated fully.

Thank you kind sirs for

reading my opinion.

Now you must read this entire manual to

keep healthy and sane. (24)

(Tuke, p. 97).