The Treatment of Chronic Ulcer of the Leg.

Abstract

These are surely no less deserving of our protection than the feeble in body. To take advantage of the feebleness of intellect of one already on the borderland of insanity to annihilate by hypnotic suggestion the little remnant of reason and will-power that remains to him is equivalent to destroying a feeble, defenceless, or injured life. The gift of reason and free-will is our most cherished possession, and I maintain that we have no more right to deprive a human being of this gift for the sake of supposed ulterior advantages than we have to destroy human life for the supposed benefit of the human race.-I am, Sir, yours faithfully,