Diabolical, they might be termed more truly than religious.
There was nothing for it but a madhouse.

The sufferer was consigned to the private asylum of Dr.Cotton, at St.Alban's.

An ill-chosen physician Dr.Cotton would have been, if the malady had really had its source in religion; for he was himself a pious man, a writer of hymns, and was in the habit of holding religious intercourse with his patients.

Cowper, after his recovery, speaks of that intercourse with the keenest pleasure and gratitude; so that in the opinion of the two persons best qualified to judge, religion in this case was not the bane.

Cowper has given us a full account of his recovery.