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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... mind . A definition must therefore be a general one ; it must not go into particulars , but must merely broadly outline the condition . As already stated , its chief value is for forensic purposes ; the law demands a definition , and ...
... mind . A definition must therefore be a general one ; it must not go into particulars , but must merely broadly outline the condition . As already stated , its chief value is for forensic purposes ; the law demands a definition , and ...
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... mind . As a definition of insanity , therefore , we may offer : " Insanity is a more or less permanent disease or derange- ment of the brain producing disordered action of the mind in such a way as to put the subject in a condition ...
... mind . As a definition of insanity , therefore , we may offer : " Insanity is a more or less permanent disease or derange- ment of the brain producing disordered action of the mind in such a way as to put the subject in a condition ...
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... . Insanity , however , is as little liable to these examples as other disorders , and , in fact , it may be considered as one * W. C. Krauss : " Medicine , " Nov. , 1897 . of the most hereditary of diseases , bearing in mind HEREDITY . 19.
... . Insanity , however , is as little liable to these examples as other disorders , and , in fact , it may be considered as one * W. C. Krauss : " Medicine , " Nov. , 1897 . of the most hereditary of diseases , bearing in mind HEREDITY . 19.
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... mind , at the same time , that the insanity of the parent is no insurance of that of the child , and that if it has occurred after the birth of the latter , there is a better chance of its escape . In that case the offspring inherits ...
... mind , at the same time , that the insanity of the parent is no insurance of that of the child , and that if it has occurred after the birth of the latter , there is a better chance of its escape . In that case the offspring inherits ...
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... mind . This is in part due to the effects of stress , and the competi- tion of modern life , upon minds that under other con- ditions might have remained sound , and in part to the tendency of these human agglomerations to produce ...
... mind . This is in part due to the effects of stress , and the competi- tion of modern life , upon minds that under other con- ditions might have remained sound , and in part to the tendency of these human agglomerations to produce ...
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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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