Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank.
- Francis Graham Crookshank
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![each of these sets of psychological, philosophical, or metaphysical views corresponds to a definite set of views in respect of health and disease, and moulds, in respect of treatment, the whole attitude of those holding it. We have, in the first place, the views of those who may be called materialists. Materialists—1 am only speaking in the simplest terms—seek to explain the world as composed of one kind of stuff only : that which they call matter and which moves. The phenomena of mind are, for these people, produced by physical and chemical changes in the nervous system : consciousness is a product or function of protoplasm and nothing more. Doctors who think thus come to believe that, in disease, what is really important is the dis¬ turbance in fine or gross structure of the tissues or organs; while holding that disturbance of function is always a result of organic change, rather absurdly, they call “ functional ” those cases in which no structural change is detectable, and in which there is [22]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
