A text-book of pathology in relation to mental diseases / by W. Ford Robertson.

  • Robertson, W. Ford (William Ford), 1867-
Date:
1900
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Credit: A text-book of pathology in relation to mental diseases / by W. Ford Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PATHOLOGY IN RELATION TO MENTAL DISEASES CHAPTEE I Introduction. Pathology is that department of biological science which treats of disease, or the disorder of structure and function in living organisms. But it goes deeper than the mere outward manifestations of such disorders, and considers their essential causes, the nature and course of the perverted vital processes upon which they depend, and the structural, physical, and chemical alterations associated with them. The facts regarding the various forms of disease which, as a progressive science, it endeavours to elucidate may be classilied as follows:— 1. Etiology. 2. The Nature and Course of the Morbid Process (Pathogenesis). 3. Pathological Anatomy: (a) Macroscopic; (&) Microscopic (Pathological Histology). This subdivision is applicable not only to pathology in general, but also to the pathology of any single disease. Some writers restrict the term Pathology to the science which treats of the etiology, nature and course of the morbid processes associated with disease, and therefore it has at present its wider and its narrower significance. The present work deals with the pathology of that group of diseases of the nervous system to which the terms insanity and mental diseases have long been applied. This group is essentially a clinical one, and does not represent a distinct pathological division. Nevertheless, the consideration of the pathology of its component diseases in a separate treatise is amply justified in view of the great practical importance of the clinical division. A systematic treatise upon the pathology of mental diseases ought to cover the whole ground represented in the above classification. It should explain all that is known regarding the causation of the
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