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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![At this same period there were made some fortu- nate experiments iu medication, and the cure of a case of relapse of mania b} ti-ansfusion of blood was reported, also some other cases cured by tre|)hiuing. In the eighteenth centurj' the stud}' of mental pathology entered deiiuitely upon a new course. There still occurred some epidemics of religious and hysterical insanity, j»erliaps among the persecuted Calvinists, perhaps at the tc>nib of the deacon at Pai'is, but their morbid nature was recognized and they were met with treatment, medical in its character. ViEissKN.s (1041-1720), aside from some neui'o- scs the seat of which he fixed definitely in tlic brain, only atteniptcil to adapt his knowledge of nu'iital diseases to the humoral rlieorii's he supported. Im^kiujaave (lGti8-lT;]8), and liis commentator N'anSwieten (1700-1772) also subordinated their ideas of insanity to their mechanical theories and attrib- uted everything to llie malignity of the blood aiul the black bile. 'I'hey give nevertlu'less here and there good descriptions of mania and melancholia, and they point out, particularly in the following, the ]»riiu;ipal ])hysical characters of melancholia with profound depression, or, in other words, of stupor: PuUxH lentior; frif/i/s majus; resjArutio Icnta; rirciihitio ]ter mn(/uine<i vasa bona ; per hiteralia iitinuti bona; hiuc huinoriua aecretiorum, et ex-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963009_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
