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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![fever, characterized by disorders of the sensibility, of the inteiligeiice, and of tlie will. This definition, considered as the best of all those so far offered, an<] they are numerous, is ne\ ertlieless very imperfect, inasmuch as it may l)e applied in- differently to all clu-onic cei'ebral affections in which there is any psychic disorder, and in that it does not especially include the distinction we have noted between mental alienation and insanity. In order to be more precise and yet without pre- tendinu,- to u'ive an accurate dehnition of insanitv, wjiich is in the present state of oui- knowledge almost an imjtossibility, we may say that iusaiiity is <( !ijje<dal (Useai<e, i.s a form of allenatiou churacterizi'd by the orcidt'/ital, v'/icoNi^rioiff!, (on/ mon nr l<-ss pcr- iii finerit distarhunce of tIlk reaxon. Synonym v. Tkkminology.—Mental alienation has as synonyms, mental diseases ovphrcuDpntliio^; insanity, psyrhosl.^ or jisi/r/iojKifJn/; mental medi- cine, pHyi-liliitry or freniairy. As to the words dementia, monomania, hallucina- tion, delusion, which are often improp(!i-h- used by the public as synonyms of insanity, they ha\ e each a particular and very dirt'erent signitication. 'i'lius dementia is a form of alienation, and it can scai'cely be made the ecpiivalent of insanity anywhere exce)it in judicial language wliere tliis usage has ])revailed. The same is the case with monomania or systematized insanity, which is only a special form of insanitv, and should not therefore be confounded with it.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963009_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
