A primer of psychology and mental disease : for use in training-schools for attendants and nurses and in medical classes / by C. B. Burr, M.D.
- Burr, Colonel Bell.
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A primer of psychology and mental disease : for use in training-schools for attendants and nurses and in medical classes / by C. B. Burr, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![garded insane. Insanity may develop in consequence of injury, in consequence of the delirium of fever, in consequence of the loss of blood, and in consequence of apoplexy or epilepsy; but the condition itself is not an insane condition.^ The definition speaks of the individuaVs normal standard. This means that every case is a law unto itself: that there is no fixed standard of thinking, feeling, and acting. It cannot be said, for example, because one does not act under certain conditions as his neighbor acts, becaxise he does not show the same amount of feeling tliat his neighbor manifests, or because he does not think in the same lines that his neighbor thinks, that he is insane and the other sane. In giving an opinion as to whether insanity exists, it is necessary to compare the person's present with his former habits of thinking, feeling, and acting. The departure may display itself in complete cbange of characteristics, tastes, and tendencies; in sim])le perversions of the feelings and jiidgments; or in an exaggeration of natural traits of character. Causes of Insanity. These are as numerous as the causes of disease in general. They may be classified, for convenience, as follows:— Direct physical causes, 36 per cent. Indirect physical and emotional causes, 8 per cent. ' The word insanity meanf? literally unsoundness, but it is the medical, not the literal, meaning which is here given.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21444973_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
