Observations on the deranged manifestations of the mind; or, insanity / By J.G. Spurzheim.

  • Johann Spurzheim
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[1836]
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Credit: Observations on the deranged manifestations of the mind; or, insanity / By J.G. Spurzheim. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology, are most intimately connected with each other; and must be brought in harmony to complete the medical know- ledge. But Pathology cannot be cultivated in the same way as anatomy and physiology. In the two latter branches, divisions may be established accord- ing to the structure and functions of similar organs, as of bones, muscles, blood-vessels, nerves—or of sin- gle and individual parts, as of the eye, teeth, liver, &c., whilst in Pathology it is to be observed that the same disease or morbid state may affect every system of the body. Here then we must be too often satisfied with mere nosological divisions, according to the de- ranged functions of the different parts, and we have no true and satisfactory pathogeny, that is, a doctrine of the nature of diseases, which ought to be founded on the whole of the human frame, and not on the disturb- ed functions or morbid appearances of single parts, which, being affected by the same disease, on account of their different structure and functions, must pro- duce different symptoms. The vegetative functions evidently depend on the nervous system, and in nosology a class of nervous complaints are commonly mentioned, such as Dyspha- gia, Asthma, Cardialgia, Dyspnea, Colica, &c., but these disorders of the vegetative functions, even when they result from diseases in the nervous system, do
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