Diseased cravings and paralysed control : dipsomania, morphinomania, chloralism, cocainism / by T.S. Clouston.

  • Thomas Clouston
Date:
[1890]
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Credit: Diseased cravings and paralysed control : dipsomania, morphinomania, chloralism, cocainism / by T.S. Clouston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    j L Part Sirst. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. I.— DISEASED CRACINGS AND PARALYSED CONTROL- DIPSOMANIA; MORPHINOMANIA; CHLORALISM • CO* CAIN ISM. D ’ ( Continued from page 521.) DipmmnM.—-Dipsomania has never been satisfactorily defined insanTvhi the has been defined- But if we canlot define' msaiuty in the abstract, we agree in the main as to what it is in ™esent°reThe , »] 18 “‘'Jfi'A n0‘ the «*se with dipsomania at Son and Zl ofi? ft 7“ tb? 1f°SeSt botl‘ in the P™fes- i„ Sop liar estimation T ?°me ^ ^ fo1' drunkenness S: tSSr ~ « If we havTa mtieut wtth'Tr,* Ure\fr0m “ormal mentalizatij distinct mSn?Sl exaltation T “f*61'6111 ma”ia'-that is, with tiveness, changed habite loss /r eSSneSS’ restlessness, talka- loss of control Sver temper morbid ?T°n SeiT’ unse^edness, hyperaesthetic memory vve m^st not °f lmagmation, and though he drinks excessively an^has aRh? * ma? a'dipsomaniac, by it, and has an intense cmviim to le i Symp,torf aggravated control, lying to get it cheating in & f -l °VeI whlch he has no particular lack of self-control nrJ ^ -lfc’ ?nd steabng it. This symptoms of an ordtarylmmh manTa ’M’16 °U of «» standing and troublesome svmntom o MIfc may be a veiT out- the patient, but it is unscientific tn tl the m°St hurtful one to general brain disease and ticket it n« ffkerany one. symptom of a as well call a pneumonia a dvlnnf h° dlS®T ltselp We might ™“*« & vo Ly:~ ■zash-1 have had cases 4 s