Observations on the illusions of the insane, and on the medico-legal question of their confinement / Translated from the French of M. Esquirol ... by William Liddell.

  • Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol
Date:
1833
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    ILLUSIONS PRE PN SANs. (Read at the Institute, on the 1st of October, 1832.) AT the meeting of the Academy of Sciences, on the 16th of June, 1817, M. Pinel made a report of a paper which | had read at a preceding meeting, entitled, HALLUCINATIONS OF THE INSANE. Insane persons fancy they see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, although external objects are not pre- sented to their senses, and are, consequently, in- capable of producing any impression upon them. This symptom is an intellectual phenomenon, totally independent of the organs of sense, and takes place although they may be inactive, or have even ceased to exist. Thus, there are deaf persons who fancy they hear, blind ones who think they see, &c. &c. _ The ancients had only observed this symptom, as far B
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