Thirty-third annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics, near Perth. June, 1860.

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics
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1860
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Credit: Thirty-third annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics, near Perth. June, 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE III.—-[Continued]. Form of Insanity. 2. Chronic Mania. M. F. S. Actual Character. ning, patient, and persevering; has been found furtively sharpening tools, appar¬ ently for suicidal purposes: the form of disease is now passing into Mania.— Vide VIII. 2. Has most persistent delusions regarding several of the officers and his fellow- patients, as well as regarding several ar¬ ticles of furniture in the Institution.— Vide II. 11, V. 1. 3. Monomania of Vanity. 4. Acute Mania. 5. Chronic Dementia. m. s. s. 6. very small in 3 cases (2 males and 1 female). Has devoted himself for a series of years to the composition of what he regards a most important literary undertaking, which will extend over several bulkv volumes ; takes no pleasure in any other species of occupation.— Vide II. 4, IV. 2. A good workman, but unstable and capri¬ cious.— Vide II. 22, IV. 1. No evidence ; existence vegetative.— Vide IV. 3. 1. Acute Mania. 2. Monomania of Vanity. 3. Chronic Dementia. s. m. s. IV.—Inhabitiveness—very small in 3 cases (2 males and 1 female). Left his native village, where he was en- gaged in a comfortable handicraft, to enlist as a soldier.— Vide II. 22, III. 4. Has no desire to return home or to leave the Asylum, but frequently gives his wife the most absurd advices as to her changes of residence.— V. II. 4, III. 3, XIII. 1. No evidence; existence vegetative.— Vide III. 5, XIV. 8. 1. Chronic Mania. s. V.—Adhesiveness—very large in 2 cases (1 male and 1 female). Has a variety of peculiarities of conduct, connected apparently with delusions which are less conspicuous—such as breathing continuously on pieces of coal, constantly carrying pieces of bread or cold meat in his hands, &c.— Vide II. 11, III. 2.