A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the MindHaswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837 - 337 pages |
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acute admission admitted affected agitation animal magnetism apoplexy appears attack become Bethlem Hospital Bicêtre bleeding body brain Calmeil catamenia cerebellum cerebral character Charenton circumstances confinement connected constitution cortical substance cretins cured defective degree delirium dementia disease disorder display epilepsy Esquirol excitement existence fact faculties feelings females Foville frequently Georget give rise goitre Guislain habits head hospitals hypochondriasis idiots illusion imbecility impressions incoherence increase individual inflammation influence inquiry insane persons instances intellectual intestinal canal laboured lunatic asylums magnetism maniacal manifest means melancholia melancholy ment mental derangement mind monomania moral causes moral insanity morbid changes nature necroscopical nervous number of lunatics objects observed occurred opinion organs paralysis paroxysm particular patients peculiar period phenomena phrenology physicians pia mater Pinel predisposition propensity proportion puerperal madness reason recovery relation remarkable remedy respect result Salpêtrière says scarcely sensation sleep sometimes somnambulism substance symptoms termed tion violent writer
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Page 15 - In cases of this nature, the moral and active principles of the mind are strongly perverted or depraved; the power of self-government is lost or greatly impaired and the individual is found to be incapable, not of talking or reasoning upon any subject proposed to him, for this he will often do with great shrewdness and volubility, but of conducting himself with decency and propriety in the business of life
Page 20 - There are many individuals living at large, and not entirely separated from society, who are affected in a certain degree with this modification of insanity.
Page 275 - ... manners, had been ten days confined with her first child, when suddenly, having her eyes fixed upon it, she was seized with the desire of strangling it. This idea made her shudder ; she carried the infant to its cradle, and went out in order to get rid of so horrid a thought. The cries of the little being who required nourishment, recalled her to the house; she experienced still more strongly the impulse to destroy it. She hastened away again, haunted by the dread of committing a crime so horrible;...
Page 15 - His exact words are important and worthy of repetition: there is like-wise a form of mental derangement in which the intellectual faculties appear to have sustained little or no injury, while the disorder is manifested, principally or alone, in the state of the feelings, temper or habits. In cases of this nature, the moral and active principles of the mind are strongly perverted or depraved; the power of self-government is lost or greatly impaired and the individual is found to be incapable, not...
Page 223 - ... fever) generally takes place before they get well. I have had several private patients, and have been called in where a great number of stimulating medicines and blisters have been administered ; but they have gone on at another time talking nonsense until the disease has gone off, and they have become sensible.
Page 321 - One afternoon in the month of May, feeling himself a little unsettled, and not inclined to business, he thought he would take a walk into the city to amuse his mind ; and having strolled into St. Paul's Churchyard, he stopped at the shop-window of Carrington and Bowles, and looked at the pictures, among which was one of the cathedral. He had not been long there, before a short, grave-looking, elderly gentleman, dressed in...
Page 22 - When he became of age, he succeeded to the possession of an extensive domain. He proved himself fully competent to the management of his estate, as well as to the discharge of his relative duties, and he even distinguished himself by acts of beneficence and compassion. Wounds, law-suits, and pecuniary compensations were generally the consequences of his unhappy propensity to quarrel.
Page 323 - Seeing me look surprised at him, he said, ' I have not yet told you all, for he practises his spells by hieroglyphics on walls and houses, and wields his power, like a detestable tyrant, as he is, over the minds of those whom he has enchanted, and who are the objects of his constant spite, within the circle of the hieroglyphics.
Page 322 - I inquired in what way his power was exercised ? He cast on me a look of suspicion mingled with confidence, took my arm, and after leading me through two or three rooms and then into the garden, exclaimed, ' It is of no use — there is no concealment from him, for all places are alike open to him — he sees us — and he hears us now.
Page 282 - ... 2. The same individuals have been discovered in many instances to have attempted suicide, to have expressed a wish for death; sometimes they have begged to be executed as criminals. 3. These acts are without motive ; they are in opposition to the known influences of all human motives. A man murders his wife and children, known to have been tenderly attached to them ; a mother destroys her infant.