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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![i. e., tlie lieredity of cerebral affections and general ]jaral3'sis; (;3) neurotic heredity, or that oi the neuroses. Age.—The frequency of n\ental alienation is most mai'ked in the middle ])eriod of life; before and after that it gradually diminishes according as we approach the two extremes of infancy and old age. The ])rinci])al important periods of life, such as puberty ami the climacteric, arc the signal for a recru- descence of the fre(piency of insanity. Sex.—In general statistics of mental alienation the mah> sex Hgurcs more largely than the female: the pi-o])ortiou is 114 to 129 males to each 100 females. If the cases of idiocy and cretinism, most frequent among males, are excluded, a certain e((uilibrium is re-established, and if we go further and take out all the cases of general paralj'^sis and alcoholism, we fiiul that ])ure insanit}' is more frequent in the female than in the male. It is necessar}^ to add that certain mental disorders, like those connected with ])reg- nancy, are peculiai- to the female, and that some others, c(mimon to botli sexes, have special char- acters in women. Climate. Seasons. Lunak Phases.—It is scarcely possil)le to state the comparative influence of different climates on t he ])roduction of insanity, be- cause of the multi]jlicity, and especially the diversity, of the superadded causes. The one fact that appears to be settled is the greater frequency of alienation](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963009_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
