 ... the most effectual modes of controlling or preventing it The best view of it we find is that given by the Rev. J. Barlow, late Secretary of the Royal Institution, in a small work " On Man's Power over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity." The principal...  Small Books on Great Subjects - Page 361846Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Ladbroke Wigan - Brain - 1844 - 516 pages
...the porcelain vase, which entered the manufactory in the shape of metallic salts, clay, and sand. " Should my position, that the difference between sanity...mind and the feelings that agitate him, and he will DD find that, were they all expressed and indulged, they would be as wild, and perhaps as frightful... | |
 | Medicine - 1845 - 606 pages
...uncertain tenure of all earthly happiness, will overturn the throne of reason. Mr. Barlow well observes, " should my position, that the difference between sanity and insanity consists in the degree of •elf-control exercised, appear paradoxical to any one, let him note for a •hort time the thoughts... | |
 | 1845 - 610 pages
...contains some excellent observation* upon this subject ; the principal position contended for being " that the difference between sanity and insanity consists in the degree of self-control exercised.*' Excluding those cases which depend upon physical causes, though even a large number of this class is... | |
 | Erastus Edgerton Marcy - 1868 - 966 pages
...Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity." The principal position contended for by this author is, " that the difference between sanity and insanity consists in the degree of self-control exercised by the individual." Now, when we consider in how many cases insanity is caused by self-indulgence,... | |
 | Erastus Edgerton Marcy, Franklin W. Hunt - Homeopathy - 1868 - 968 pages
...Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity." The principal position contended for by this author is, " that the difference between sanity and insanity consists in the degree of self-control exercised by the individual." Now, when we consider in how many cases insanity is caused by self-indulgence,... | |
 | National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America - 1889 - 446 pages
...mainly in imbecility of will in respect to certain emotional excitements. Again our author says : " The difference between sanity and insanity consists in the degree of self-control exercised." Not so ; it is in the degree of self-control that he is capable of exercising. Still further, our author... | |
 | Medicine - 1902 - 76 pages
...mainly in imbecility of will in respect to certain emotional excitements. Again our author says : " The difference between sanity and insanity consists in the degree of self-control exercised." Not so ; it is in the degree of self-control that he is capable of •exercising. Still further, our... | |
 | 1863 - 652 pages
...Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity." The principal position contended for by this author is, " that the difference between sanity and insanity consists in the degree of self-control exercised by the individual." Now, when we consider in how many cases insanity is caused by self-indulgence,... | |
 | Daniel Wolford La Rue - Mental health - 1927 - 464 pages
...condition. If he attributes this change to them and not to himself, he is insane.2 Hollander thinks that the difference between sanity and insanity consists in the degree of self-control exercised, and defines insanity as ... a state of derangement, disease, or defect of the brain, causing a disordered... | |
 | William B. Dillingham - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 464 pages
...faculties." 73 Echoing some of the most prominent physicians of his day, Barlow goes so far as to say that "the difference between sanity and insanity consists in the degree of self-control exercised." 74 The contradiction inherent in a theory that on the one hand prohibits a probing into and a free... | |
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