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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... important details - is practically impos- sible . In a most elaborate attempt at defining in- sanity , Spitzka , who may be considered as most com- petent , gives half a page to the definition alone , the necessary glosses and ...
... important details - is practically impos- sible . In a most elaborate attempt at defining in- sanity , Spitzka , who may be considered as most com- petent , gives half a page to the definition alone , the necessary glosses and ...
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... important . There are no hard - and - fast lines separating sanity and insanity , and it is this that renders a precise definition almost , if not quite , an impossibility . Notwithstanding this , it is of some importance to establish a ...
... important . There are no hard - and - fast lines separating sanity and insanity , and it is this that renders a precise definition almost , if not quite , an impossibility . Notwithstanding this , it is of some importance to establish a ...
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... importance . Confining the heredity to that of mental disorder , however , some of the latest statistics * give a percentage of from 30 to 35 in which there is a family record of direct or collateral heredity of insanity , which figure ...
... importance . Confining the heredity to that of mental disorder , however , some of the latest statistics * give a percentage of from 30 to 35 in which there is a family record of direct or collateral heredity of insanity , which figure ...
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... important . It is especially manifest in the causes of idiocy , im- becility , and epileptic insanity , a very large proportion of the victims of these afflictions having a history of parental intemperance . The habit of drinking is ...
... important . It is especially manifest in the causes of idiocy , im- becility , and epileptic insanity , a very large proportion of the victims of these afflictions having a history of parental intemperance . The habit of drinking is ...
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... important part , as certain types are directly con- nected with the different stages of life . Insanity , apart from idiocy or imbecility , is rare in childhood , becomes more common at puberty , is most frequent in early manhood , and ...
... important part , as certain types are directly con- nected with the different stages of life . Insanity , apart from idiocy or imbecility , is rare in childhood , becomes more common at puberty , is most frequent in early manhood , and ...
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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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