A monograph on mental unsoundness / By Francis Wharton.

  • Wharton, Francis, 1820-1889.
Date:
1855
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Credit: A monograph on mental unsoundness / By Francis Wharton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    (6.) Oik (7.) Sui (4.) Aidoiomania—(morbid sexual propensity), g 199. (5.) Pseudonomaaia—(morbid lying propensity), g 202. likeiomania—(morbid state of domestic affections), g 204. Suicidal mania—(morbid propensity to self-destruction), g 206. Tendency to this in cases of melancholy, &c, g 207. Legal consequences in actions against life insurers, g 208. (8.) Fanatico-mania, g 209. (a) Supernatural or pseudo-supernatural demoniacal posses- sion, g 210. Testimony of ancient writers to this, g 210. of the New Testament, g 211. (6) Mental alienation on religious subjects, § 214. Tendency of infidelity to insanity, g 214. Conservative influence of Christianity, g 215. Insane delusion the result of a departure from Christianity, g 216. Illustrations of this, g 217. Legal bearings of religious insanity, g 219. (9.) Politico-mania, g 230. How far an epidemic, g 221. Causes likely to generate it, g 221. VIII. MENTAL UNSOUNDNESS, AS CONNECTED WITH INTELLECTUAL PROS- TRATION, g 222. 1st. Idiocy, g 222. Nature of, g 222. Physical incidents of, g 223-5-6. Cretinism, g 228. 2d. Imbecility, g 229. Willi concomitant insanity, g 230. Original, g 230. Supervening, { 230. Specious, With confusion of mind, g 230. Without insanity, g 231. Distinction between innocent and malignant imbecility, g 232. 2d. Dementia, g 234. IX. MENTAL UNSOUNDNESS ACCOMPANIED WITH DELIRIUM, g 235. 1st. General Delirium, g 235. !a) Depressed delirium, g 236. 81 Maniacal delirium, g 237. <■) Delirium tremens, g 238. a) Puerperal mania, g 239. 2d. Partial Delirium, g 240. X. MENTAL UNSOUNDNESS, AS CONNECTED WITH DELUSIONS AND HALLU- CINATIONS, g 241. 1st. General, g 241. Marked by general derangement of the perceptive faculties, g 241. Various phases it assumes, g 242. Tests of Ellinger, g 243. Effect of general delusion, g 244. 2d. Partial, g 245. Delusions and hallucinations, g 245. When there is no other sign of mental unsoundness, g 246. When mental unsoundness has made some progress, g 247. In cases of drunkenness, io„ \ 248. In cases of developed insanity, g 249. Causes of delusions, g 250. Abereromliie s classification, g 252. Hallucination in regard to a change into, or a possession by, wild animals, j 253. XI. MENTAL UNSOUNDNESS, AS CONNECTED WITH LUCID INTERVALS, ? 254-