Outlines of lectures on mental diseases / By Alexander Morison.

  • Alexander Morison
Date:
1826
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Credit: Outlines of lectures on mental diseases / By Alexander Morison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Although the subject of mental derangement is generally allowed to he the most difficult branch of medical science, it must be granted, at the same time, that much may he done to improve our knowledge of it, and that too little attention has hitherto been paid to mental diseases in the edu¬ cation of those destined for the medical profes¬ sion. The propriety of Medical Students devoting a part of their time to the study of the mutual in¬ fluence of the Mind and Body in a state of Dis¬ ease, cannot he denied; and it is generally admit¬ ted, that mental diseases being numerous and va¬ ried, and requiring the combined influence of me¬ dical and moral management, demand for their consideration a distinct course of lectures, since it is not possible, in the longest period allotted for the consideration of Diseases in general, to give sufficient time to this interesting branch of medi¬ cal science. In the Course of Lectures of which the pre¬ sent publication is an outline, I endeavour to give, in as condensed a form, and in as perspicu-
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