On obscure diseases of the brain and disorders of the mindChurchill, 1860 - 721 pages |
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... intellect - Muscular tremors symptomatic of brain disease - Irregular muscular action - Morbid want of muscular co - ordination-- Difficulty of explaining these phenomena - Convulsive action - Obscure types of nocturnal epilepsy - Loss ...
... intellect - Muscular tremors symptomatic of brain disease - Irregular muscular action - Morbid want of muscular co - ordination-- Difficulty of explaining these phenomena - Convulsive action - Obscure types of nocturnal epilepsy - Loss ...
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... intellect begin to decline ? -The vital , not the intellectual , principle affected in old age - Celebrated men who have retained their intellectual powers to a great age , as exhibited in the lives of Cherubini , Corneille , M. des ...
... intellect begin to decline ? -The vital , not the intellectual , principle affected in old age - Celebrated men who have retained their intellectual powers to a great age , as exhibited in the lives of Cherubini , Corneille , M. des ...
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... been permitted to undermine the bodily health , damage and impair the intellect , even threaten the extinction of reason , and destruction of life , without any remedial or palliative treatment being OBSCURE CEREBRAL SYMPTOMS . 9.
... been permitted to undermine the bodily health , damage and impair the intellect , even threaten the extinction of reason , and destruction of life , without any remedial or palliative treatment being OBSCURE CEREBRAL SYMPTOMS . 9.
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... intellect , and that very generally on one point only ; such aberration , if unaccompanied by bodily pain , is not only neglected by the sufferers , but dis- regarded by those around them . This , however , is pre- cisely the time when ...
... intellect , and that very generally on one point only ; such aberration , if unaccompanied by bodily pain , is not only neglected by the sufferers , but dis- regarded by those around them . This , however , is pre- cisely the time when ...
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... intellect is unclouded , and the brain in a perfectly sound and normal state . Such apparently healthy psychical , and cerebral manifestations , are quite consistent with the existence of encephalic disease , impairment , and even of ...
... intellect is unclouded , and the brain in a perfectly sound and normal state . Such apparently healthy psychical , and cerebral manifestations , are quite consistent with the existence of encephalic disease , impairment , and even of ...
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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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