On man's power over himself to prevent or control insanity.

  • Barlow, John
Date:
1849
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Credit: On man's power over himself to prevent or control insanity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    of the brain producing loss of memory, &c. II. Morbid affections of the Intellectual force. 1. Inefficiency, where either the appetites or instinctive emotions, &c. are left either wholly or partially uncontrolled. 2. Misdirection, where delusions of sense are reasoned and acted upon. 3. Occultation, where the organs of thought are impaired or wanting. 13. It will be readily seen that a force which is capable of acting as an acceleration, a retard- ino-, or a disturbance of the vital functions, must have no small influence over so deUcate an organ as the brain; and accordingly we find paralysis, inflammation, or brain fever, and a variety of other diseases of this kind, produced in many instances by causes purely mental — I need hardly give cases; they will occur readily to the recollection of every one. — Now a force which can produce disease, must have some power also in removing or preventing it; and my business at present will be to endeavour at least, to mark out how far this force can be made available to so desirable an object. In this attempt to establish true principles where c
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