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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    OF THE INSANE STATE IN GENERAL. r j* ' ‘ T The characteristic symptoms of the insane state are Delirium, or intellectual disorder. Want of sleep. Headach.—Affections of sensation and mo¬ tion. Altered physiognomy. The difficulty of giving a satisfactory definition is so great, that some of the best practical authors decline attempting it. Locke, Sauvages, and Cullen, conceive false Judgment to be the characteristic of Insa¬ nity. Battie, Crichton, and others, are of opi- nion that the judgment remains unimpaired, the Perception being disordered. - There appears to be general derangement of 5
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