A practical manual of mental medicine / by E. Régis ; with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball ; authorised translation by H.M. Bannister.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical manual of mental medicine / by E. Régis ; with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball ; authorised translation by H.M. Bannister. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![exorcisms, ablutions Avitb the lustra) water or the blood of a sacrificial victim. Occasionally there were added to these religious ceremonies some wise hygienic practices: spectacles, recreations, music, promenades, sojourns at thermal baths and exercise in the gymnasium. It thus hap- pened that some of the patients were cured, and this was then attributed at once to the appeasement of the offended deity, and necessarily involved the giving of valuable offerings, to the enrichment of the priests. Such, in the early ages, were the prevalent ideas in regard to insanity and the means employed for its cure. We shall have to pass rapidly over this rather confused period of tin; history of nu^ntal disease, and merely mentioning the J*ythagore;ui philosophers who, in the fourth and lifth centurii'S before Christ, received from the priests the notions they possessed to only confuse them sometimes with philoso])hy, sometimes with physics and metaphys- ics, we come to llip|)0('rates, with whom i-eallv commences the medical science of antiquitv. SECOND EPOCH. {Medical epoch of antiquity). 1. ITn'PocnATic Piniron. Hippocrates, the creator of mental medicine, be- longed to a family of priests, the Asclepiades, who](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963009_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
