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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![(Ibapter Iffl. SYMPTOMATIC ELEMENTS OF MENTAL ALIENATION. Jk'i'oiv undcrtakino; tlie (los('vi})tioii of tlie various rornis of mental alienation, it is nceessavy to first study its morbid elements. In order to do this satis- faetorily, ituiustbebornein mind that insanity is not uiert'ly an intellectual disorder, hut a disease affecting- the whole being, and that consequently its constit- uent elements may exist together or se])arately both in tlie ]»sychi(' and the somatic s})heres. Division of the Symptomatic Elements.— l>eai-iiig ill mind the above, the fundamental division of the syin])tomatic elements of alienation seems to me to be based on the fact that some atfect only the functions of the psycho-physique, while others in- volve its constitution. Hence, two very distinct grou])s ol' elements: (1) the functional or dynamic; (•i) the organic or constitutional elements. §1. FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS. These elements resolve themselves into o-eneral disturbances or those of the general activity, and l)artial disturbances referable to the psychic and the physical activities.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963009_0081.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
