Remarks on Insanity: Its Nature and TreatmentChurchill, 1851 - 150 pages |
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abstract acute affection afferent nerves allude animal antiphlogistic arise become believe Bethlehem Hospital blood bodily body brain causes of insanity cerebral chronic consciousness consequent costive deficient nervous degree delirium tremens dependent depressed vitality derangement disease distinct dreaming excess exciting causes exhaustion exists grey matter imbecility impressions inflammation inflammatory action influence injury insane phenomena loss of nervous loss of vitality lucid intervals mania means mental conditions mental manifestations mental phenomena mind mode moral liberty morbid motion nature nervous and vital nervous conditions nervous energy nervous irritability nervous matter nervous power nervous system nervous tone observations occasioned ordinary organ paralysis paroxysms pathology patient peculiar periods person pheno phenomena of insanity phrenologist physical pia mater poisons position profound sleep proximate cause racter remarks sensations sense sensorium somnambulism stages suffering symptoms things thought tion treatment truth vascular vascular system vigour vital depression vital power
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Page 131 - Then I said, I am cast out of Thy sight ; yet I will look again toward Thy holy temple. The waters compassed me about even to the soul : the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottom of the mountains ; the earth with her bars was about me for ever : yet hast Thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
Page 56 - Far better they should sleep awhile Within the church's shade, Nor wake until new heaven, new earth, Meet for their new immortal birth For their abiding place be made, Than wander back to life, and lean On our frail love once more.
Page iv - The complete maniac lives in a waking dream, — he raves without power to stop himself, without the power to appreciate the necessity of stopping himself; he is completely the victim, not in the least the master of the strongest impressions uppermost in his fancy.
Page 12 - Monro shall define bis own views ; we, therefore, subjoin another extract : " The theory of the pathology of insanity which I wish to put forward in this treatise, is as follows : — 1. That it is an affection consequent on depressed vitality, which depression of vitality is wont to manifest itself with peculiar and specific force in the cerebral masses, owing to a congenital, and frequently hereditary, tendency in the brain thus to succumb when oppressed by an excitmgj»use.
Page 36 - The mental phenomena of sleep, when profound, are not remembered, if any exist ; we must therefore take those of 'less profound or dreaming sleep. Here the condition of the mind is very like that of intense insanity, namely, a very vivid impression of simple images passing before the mind, — an inability to compare these images with the things of the external world, — an inability to judge of the relation one image bears to another, — and...
Page 37 - ... before all, an inability to control the train of these images by an act of will, either as regards their origin, their course, or their interruption. The most striking distinctions between the phenomena of dreams and those of intense insanity are — 1st. That the external world is never perhaps so entirely shut out in insanity as it is in dreams, the special senses seldom or never being so much suspended. 2ndly. The power of voluntary motion is lost generally in sleep, but it exists in insanity....
Page 37 - ... of voluntary motion is lost generally in sleep, but it exists in insanity. 3rdly. The dreaming state is temporary, and able to be dispelled, while insanity is more or less permanent. There is, however, a less profound sleep even, that of the ordinary dreaming state, which generally occurs when the person is very near the waking state, though some excitable temperaments are subject to its phenomena more or less at all times. In this condition the external world is not wholly shut off from the...
Page 104 - ... and at last the sun went down, and the heavens, so bright and clear on the preceding night, were overcast; and "a deep sleep fell upon Abraham, " and lo! a horror of great darkness fell upon him." And in that thick darkness a light, as of a blazing fire, enveloped with the smoke as of a furnace, passed through the open space, and the covenant, the first covenant, "the Old Testament," was concluded between God and man.
Page 37 - ... ordinary dreaming state, which generally occurs when the person is very near the waking state, though some excitable temperaments are subject to its phenomena more or less at all times. In this condition the external world is not wholly shut off from the dreamer, for he is conscious of sounds, etc., though he misinterprets them ; he is able also to use his organs of motion, as is manifested in talking in sleep and throwing his limbs about ; this, however, approaches the condition of somnambulism....
Page 35 - Physics and chemistry are so intimately connected that it is difficult to say •where the one begins and the other ends.