On obscure diseases of the brain and disorders of the mindChurchill, 1860 - 721 pages |
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... continued attention - Impairment of attention - Morbid distraction and reverie - Injurious effects of protracted reverie - Resemblance of reverie to dreaming - Morbid imaginative contemplation -Hypochondriasis - Morbid concentration of ...
... continued attention - Impairment of attention - Morbid distraction and reverie - Injurious effects of protracted reverie - Resemblance of reverie to dreaming - Morbid imaginative contemplation -Hypochondriasis - Morbid concentration of ...
Page xv
... continued sleeplessness- Sleeplessness in insanity often caused by spectral illusions - Singular illusions causing sleeplessness - The poet Southey's insanity caused by loss of sleep- Morbid disposition to excess of sleep - Drowsiness a ...
... continued sleeplessness- Sleeplessness in insanity often caused by spectral illusions - Singular illusions causing sleeplessness - The poet Southey's insanity caused by loss of sleep- Morbid disposition to excess of sleep - Drowsiness a ...
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... continued irritation , capillary con- gestion , inflammation , ( causing depositions of adven- titious matter , ) toxic agents circulating in the blood pro- ducing modifications of cerebral nutrition , morbid changes in the coats of the ...
... continued irritation , capillary con- gestion , inflammation , ( causing depositions of adven- titious matter , ) toxic agents circulating in the blood pro- ducing modifications of cerebral nutrition , morbid changes in the coats of the ...
Page 41
... continued beyond a minute , or , even a second , the events of a long and chequered life have elaborately , and in their minutest relation , occurred to the mind , and , in the smallest appre- ciable period of time , an eventful history ...
... continued beyond a minute , or , even a second , the events of a long and chequered life have elaborately , and in their minutest relation , occurred to the mind , and , in the smallest appre- ciable period of time , an eventful history ...
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... continued passing in full gallop , and casting frightful looks on me . Their march , I thought , continued for five hours , and they were fol- lowed by an immense number of artillery wagons , full of bleeding corpses , whose limbs still ...
... continued passing in full gallop , and casting frightful looks on me . Their march , I thought , continued for five hours , and they were fol- lowed by an immense number of artillery wagons , full of bleeding corpses , whose limbs still ...
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aberration abscess acute affection amaurosis apoplexy appeared attack attention became blood brain disease cause cerebellum cerebral circulation cerebral disease cerebral hemorrhage cerebral softening cerebrum character cloth commencement complained condition consciousness consequence continued death delusion detected dream Edition epilepsy epileptic exaltation excitement exhibited existence eyes faculty fancy Fcap feeling frequently friends functions gentleman head headache hemiplegia ideas imagination impaired impressions incipient symptoms insanity intellect irritation lady lesion loss lunatic manifested medulla oblongata membranes memory meningitis ment mental derangement mental disorder mind months moral morbid Morbid Phenomena muscular nature nerve nervous night objects observed occasionally occurred organic disease pain paralysis paroxysmal attacks paroxysms Pathology patient period person physical physician pia mater Post 8vo premonitory previously psychical racter recognised recollection recovered relation remarkable says sensation sensibility sight singular sleep softening speaking speech suffering thought tion treatment tumours vertigo vision voice whilst words
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