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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![among these causes, as in some countries it is a frequent source of insanity. 2. Sympathetic.—Some local physical causes, produce insanity by an action at a distance and l)y coiitrecoiip instead of directly, whence the terms sym])athetic insanity or insanity by roitsensus given to the disorder they thus produce. The i)rincipal ones of these causes are, the [)hysiological and l)athological processes of the genital apj)arati'is (puberty, menstruation, meno[)ause, 2)i'egnancy, affections of the genitals), disease of the abdominal viscera, the presence of worms in the intestines, etc. The mechanism of the production of the insanity in these cases seems often to be an auto-intoxication, through excessive production or retention of ])ois()ns of the system. b.—General Causes. AnvEmia. Cachexia. Diatheses. Fevers.— Chlorosis and anaemia, by debilitating the organism and the brain, favor the development of insanity. Excessive seminal losses and onanism seem to act in the same way. As to the diatheses, such as the arthritic, dartrous, sypliilitic, etc., they also have an action in the development of insanity, cither as they directly give rise to lesions in the bi-ain, or as the insanity supervenes during one of their acute phases, or after the disai)pearance of one of their manifesta- tions, cutaneous or otherwise, as if by a sort of metastasis, or as the toxic effect of a nutrition retardant.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963009_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
