A treatise on medical jurisprudence / by Francis Wharton and Moreton Stillé ; the medical part revised and corrected, with numerous additions by Alfred Stillé.

  • Francis Wharton
Date:
1860
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on medical jurisprudence / by Francis Wharton and Moreton Stillé ; the medical part revised and corrected, with numerous additions by Alfred Stillé. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    115/1074
    BOOK I.] ANALYSIS OF MENTAL UNSOUNDNESS. [§ 77 2d. Simulated insanity, § 127. Necessity for close examination, § 127. Tests to be applied, § 128. Delirium most usually counterfeited, but the most difficult, § 129. Physiognomy and health to be examined, § 130. Case to be compared with other recorded cases, § 131. Simulation not to be inferred from absence of a trace of insanity at the examination, § 132. Causes why such signs may be suppressed, § 132. Pretended insanity frequently turns into real, § 133. How examination is to be conducted, § 134. Patient to be brought into a succession of relations, § 135-8. To be furnished with pen, ink, and paper, and other methods of exa- mination, §§ 135-8. Insania Occulta, features of, § 139. Necessity of guarding against, § 139. IV. MENTAL UNSOUNDNESS, AS CONNECTED WITH DERANGEMENT OF THE SENSES, AND DISEASE, § 140. 1st. Deaf and Dumb, § 140. 2d. Blind, § 141. 3d. Epileptics, § 142. Peculiar tendency of epilepsy to insanity, § 142. Nature of epilepsy, § 143. Distinction between the several classes, § 144. Different stages of the disease, § 145. Actions committed during attack, not valid, § 146. Rule as to intermediate stages, § 147. Tests laid down by Clarus, § 148. V. MENTAL UNSOUNDNESS, AS CONNECTED WITH SLEEP, § 149. General eiFect of sleep on the senses, § 149. 1st. Somnolentia, or sleep-drunkenness, § 151. 2d. Somnambulism, § 159. VI. MENTAL UNSOUNDNESS, AS AFFECTING THE TEMPERAMENT, § 163. 1st. Depression, § 163. 2d. Hypochondria, § 166. 3d. Hysteria, § 169. 4th. Melancholy, § 170. VII. MENTAL UNSOUNDNESS, AS AFFECTING THE MORAL SYSTEM, § 174. 1st. General moral mania, § 174. Effect of, § 174. General symptoms, § 175. Illustrations, § 176. 2d. Monomania, § 177. Doctrine of Mania sine Delirio, § 178. Difference of opinion as to its existence, § 179. Tests to be applied to it, § 180. Tendency in this country to recognize its existence, § 183. (1.) Homicidal mania, § 186. Cases where Esquirol supposes it to exist, § 186. Precautions necessary in its recognition, § 190. Tests suggested by Dr. Ray, § 190. Dr. Taylor, § 190. Dr. Mayo's objections to the entire theory, § 191. (2.) Kleptomania (morbid propensity to steal), § 192. (3.) Pyromania (morbid incendiary propensity), § 195. How far recognized in England, § 197. Necessary tests, § 198. (4.) Aidoiomania (morbid sexual propensity), § 199. (5.) Pseudonomania (morbid lying propensity), § 202. (6.) Oikeiomania (morbid state of domestic affections), § 204. (7.) Suicidal mania (morbid propensity to self-destruction), § 206. Tendency to this in cases of melancholy, &c, § 207. Legal consequences in actions against life insurers, § 208.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3