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Page 149 - This last and very remarkable state, which the patients themselves have much difficulty in describing, which we also have ourselves observed in several cases as the predominant and most lasting symptom, is as well as possible described in the following letter of one of Esquirol's patients. " I still continue to suffer constantly ; I have not a moment of comfort, and no human sensations. Surrounded by all that can render life happy and agreeable, still to me the faculty of enjoyment and of sensation...
Page 370 - Griesinger was right in saying that the experiment has proved that the greater number of the insane do not require the confinement of an asylum ; that many of them can...
Page 64 - Nothing would be more erroneous than to consider a man to be mentally diseased because he had hallucinations. The most extended experience shows rather that such phenomena occur in the lives of very distinguished and highly intellectual men, of the most different dispositions and various casts of mind, but especially in those of warm and powerful imagination.
Page 149 - ... which follows them. ..Each of my senses, each part of my proper self, is as it were separated from me and can no longer afford me any feeling; this impossibility seems to depend upon a void which I feel in the front of my head, and to be due to the diminution of the sensibility over the whole surface of my body, for it seems to me that I never actually reach the objects which I touch... I feel well enough the changes of temperature on my skin, but I no longer experience the internal feeling of...
Page 149 - ... this impossibility seems to depend upon a void which I feel in the front of my head, and to be due to the diminution of the sensibility over the whole surface of my body, for it seems to me that I never actually reach the objects which I touch. . . . I feel well enough the...
Page 136 - that pellagrous insanity, according to Clerici (1855) consists chiefly in a vague, incoherent delirium, accompanied by stupor, loss of memory, and by loquacity without special disorder of intelligence, or violent excitement ; the melancholic state, which predominates for a long time, always passes gradually into a state of torpor of all the mental powers, with muscular weakness, which greatly resembles general paralysis. Mongeri " concluded that the pellagrous psychoses begin, ordinarily, with a...
Page 106 - Statistical investigations strengthen very remarkably the opinion generally held by physicians and the laity, that in the greater number of cases of insanity an hereditary predisposition lies at the bottom of the malady ; and I believe that we might, without hesitation, affirm that there is really no circumstance more powerful than this.
Page 147 - The melancholia which precedes insanity sometimes appears externally as the direct continuation of some painful emotion dependent upon some objective cause (moral causes of insanity), eg, grief, jealousy; and it is distinguished from the mental pain experienced by healthy persons by its excessive degree, by its more than ordinary protraction, by its becoming more and more independent of external influences, and by the other accessory affections which accompany it.
Page 81 - ... give an opinion upon what often turns out a very difficult point of diagnosis. It is not always, as some have found out to their cost, a very simple thing to say whether or not a man is mad or merely eccentric, or immoral, or holding false views of life as a result of neglected education, and so on. " The chief point is invariably this— that in the great majority of cases there appears with the mental disease a change in' the mental disposition of the patient, in his sentiments, desires, habits,...
Page 55 - ... of the acts of the insane have the character of forced, purely automatic movements ; in mania also, according to the testimony of individuals who have recovered , many of the wild desires could often be restrained ; the criminal deeds of the insane are not generally instinctive. The loss of...