Observations on the nature, kinds, causes, and prevention, of insanity / by Thomas Arnold.

Date:
1806
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Credit: Observations on the nature, kinds, causes, and prevention, of insanity / by Thomas Arnold. 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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    nity, either when they exist separately, or when they are variously complicated, is of much importance ; and so much does a just concep- ' tion of its different states in notional, and idea], insanity, contribute to this knowledge, as to render the u^e of that division of no in- considerable value : since the method of cure must be more or less varied, according to the degrees of derangement under the several species, which point out the varying degrees of affection of the brain; in the notional, as they differ from each other, are more or. less simple, or as they approach to ideal; in ideal, as the delirious ideas are more or less active, unceasing, and intense; and in all, as they . approach to, or partake more or less of, the highest, and most violent species, phrenitic insanity. How much disposed the several species of insanity are to run into, and mix, and blend, with each other, I have expressly, and fully, noted in my book; and if that circumstance be considered as incompatible with the discri- mination of species, all distinction of species in this disorder must be annihilated; and as I have allowed but of one genus, so I fear w e must admit that there is but one species, of insanity;
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