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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![were omployed by the ancients in the treatment of dangerous cases. He says, in fact, tliat Cleonicnes, kinti' of Laceda'nion, having fallen into a fi-enzy, with violent agitation, his family had him secured by wooden fetters. Hi))])ocrates by himself alone, as regards the his- tor}' of insanity, comprises or covers the whole Hip]»ooratic ])eriod. Mis successors, who were only his imitators, added nothing to his medical ideas on in.sanity, and, at the lime of the dismenibei'ment of tlie empire of Alexander, scientific tradition found it.self transported into I£gypt, where it assumed a certain brilliancy under the reign of the Ptolemies. 2. Ai,i:\AM)i;iAN I^Kiiion. The Alexandrian ])eriod, represented (jspccially by llerophilus and Erasistratus, who lived about thi'ee liuii<b-ed ycai-s prior to tlu' Christian ei'a., is, in i-cality, only an intermediate period between Hippocrates or the Greek school and jVsclepiades and Celsus or the (Trivco-Roman school. l^acking documents in regard to this period, its history is very obscure, aiul we are compelled to seek what we can learn from (xalen, the works of Erasis- tratus and Herophilus not having come down to us. lUitfrom what we learn (jf the scientific knowledu-e of these celebrated men and tlie progress they had attained, especially in anatomy and nerve physiologv, we can believe that they possessed rather accurate and extensive knowledge of msanity, ajid that they](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963009_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
