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as an anti-maniacal remedy. Cox conveyed his ideas about protecting people from coercion into asylums and described how a physician must examine an individual before issuing a certificate of lunacy. His ideas on patients’ treatment were in keeping with other physicians at the time.
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Joseph Cox published a book in 1804 which described his experiences in treating mental patients as both a madhouse keeper and a psychiatric consultant. The title page of the book reads
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