Clinical methods : a guide to the practical study of medicine / by Robert Hutchison and Harry Rainy.

  • Rainy Harry.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Clinical methods : a guide to the practical study of medicine / by Robert Hutchison and Harry Rainy. 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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    (5) Ideation. Orientation. — Sense of Time and Space. Delusions of identity [i.e. does patient mistake those around him for his friends and associates before he entered hospital, or does he imagine they are famous or legendary persons?]. Does he appreciate his surroundings, or does he imagine himself else- where than he actually is ? Does he invest the acts of those around him with a Secondary or Symbolic meaning ? Does he describe actions he has performed, in themselves not im- possible or improhahle, which, however, did not actually occur ? [e.a. when in bed with alcoholic paralysis, does he describe the walk he took in the morning, the people he met, etc. P] Coherence or Incoherence of Ideas. Delusions of Suspicion.—Continuous or only in attacks. Delusions of Persecution.—Action of unseen agencies, etc. (especially at night). Delusions of Grandeur.—Eiches, Power, Bodily Strength. Delusions concerning his health or bodily state. Fears [unfounded) in neurasthenia.