A Practical Manual of Insanity for the Medical Student and General PractitionerW.B. Saunders, 1902 - 422 pages 2000, Gift of the South Carolina State Hospital. |
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... in one respect or another . The difficulty in defining insanity lies , in the first place , in the fact that it is a negative proposition , the prefix in making it so ; negatives are usually difficult II PAGE DEFINITION; PREVALENCE II.
... in one respect or another . The difficulty in defining insanity lies , in the first place , in the fact that it is a negative proposition , the prefix in making it so ; negatives are usually difficult II PAGE DEFINITION; PREVALENCE II.
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... facts . within their experience , and there are many others who are more or less fully conscious of the morbid character of their feelings and of the fact that they are mentally deranged . There is no one feature that is pathogno- monic ...
... facts . within their experience , and there are many others who are more or less fully conscious of the morbid character of their feelings and of the fact that they are mentally deranged . There is no one feature that is pathogno- monic ...
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... those coming under the influence of civilization . The reasons for this fact and the exact ratio of increase are as yet unsettled questions . CHAPTER II . ETIOLOGY . IN considering the etiology of 2 DEFINITION ; PREVALENCE . 17.
... those coming under the influence of civilization . The reasons for this fact and the exact ratio of increase are as yet unsettled questions . CHAPTER II . ETIOLOGY . IN considering the etiology of 2 DEFINITION ; PREVALENCE . 17.
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... fact is predominant , that in the vast majority of cases , what- ever be its immediate exciting cause , it is more re- motely the result of a predisposition or favoring weak- ness , without which the direct and obvious cause would have ...
... fact is predominant , that in the vast majority of cases , what- ever be its immediate exciting cause , it is more re- motely the result of a predisposition or favoring weak- ness , without which the direct and obvious cause would have ...
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... fact is noted by some of the earlier writers , notably by Esquirol , and alienists generally recognize this possibility of error , though they may differ in their estimate of its importance . Confining the heredity to that of mental ...
... fact is noted by some of the earlier writers , notably by Esquirol , and alienists generally recognize this possibility of error , though they may differ in their estimate of its importance . Confining the heredity to that of mental ...
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acute mania alcoholic insanity alienists appear asylum attack attention bodily brain catatonia cause cerebral characteristic chronic circular insanity Clinical Cloth commonly condition confusional insanity considered dangerous defect degenerative delusional delusions depression diagnosis drug Edition effect emotional epilepsy epileptic epileptic insanity especially etiologic excitement exhaustion exist extent fact forms of insanity forms of mental frequent hallucinations heredity hypomania idiocy imbecility impulses individual intellectual irritability Jefferson Medical College Kraepelin later lesions less liable mania manifestations marked Medical College Medicine melan melancholia ment mental derangement mental disease mental disorder moral insanity moral treatment morbid Morocco morphin nervous neurasthenic normal observed occur octavo ordinary organic paranoia paresis pathologic patient peculiar period physical physician possible predisposition probably Professor prognosis pronounced proportion psychoses rare recognized recovery rule Rush Medical College sanity senile Sheep or Half sleep sometimes stage stigmata stuporous suicidal Surgery symptoms syphilis tendency tion toxic treatment typical usually
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