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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... tion most 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 ...
... tion most 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 ...
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... tion of the insane exists . In our own country we cannot go back so far with perfect confidence in our figures , but the general facts are very nearly the same , allowing for the difference of conditions . The ratio of insane to the ...
... tion of the insane exists . In our own country we cannot go back so far with perfect confidence in our figures , but the general facts are very nearly the same , allowing for the difference of conditions . The ratio of insane to the ...
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... tion of insanity is improbable among them , it is in civilized countries that the frequency of insanity is incomparably the greatest . It is especially in those countries where civilization has made the greatest advances and life is ...
... tion of insanity is improbable among them , it is in civilized countries that the frequency of insanity is incomparably the greatest . It is especially in those countries where civilization has made the greatest advances and life is ...
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... tion , pregnancy , are peculiar to the female sex ; others , like alcoholism , traumatisms , etc. , affect more par- ticularly the male sex . Aside from insanity due to alcoholism and the ever - increasing paresis , there are probably ...
... tion , pregnancy , are peculiar to the female sex ; others , like alcoholism , traumatisms , etc. , affect more par- ticularly the male sex . Aside from insanity due to alcoholism and the ever - increasing paresis , there are probably ...
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... tion . Thus , in the case of paresis which is directly excited by worries and mental stress there must be , as a rule , a system prepared by the toxins of specific disease . In many cases , also , of exhaustive insanity , some toxic ...
... tion . Thus , in the case of paresis which is directly excited by worries and mental stress there must be , as a rule , a system prepared by the toxins of specific disease . In many cases , also , of exhaustive insanity , some toxic ...
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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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