The records of hospitals show that insanity, from solitary indulgence, is common. Tissot, Esquirol, Eberle, and others, give ample testimony on this point. The latter, from a careful examination of the facts, assures us that in Paris the proportion of insane persons whose diseases may be traced to the source in question is _one_ in from _fifty-one_ to _fifty-eight_, in the _lower classes_. In the higher classes it is _one_ in _twenty-three_. -- Anon., _The Young Man's Guide_, 2nd ed., Boston, 1834

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