Insanity : modern views as to its nature and treatment : a portion of the Morison lectures on insanity, delivered in 1879 / by W.T. Gairdner, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow.
- William Tennant Gairdner
- Date:
- 1885
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Insanity : modern views as to its nature and treatment : a portion of the Morison lectures on insanity, delivered in 1879 / by W.T. Gairdner, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.—Juvenal X, 356. There is no health in us.—Book of Common Prayer. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a browf of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven: And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknovt^n, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Midsutiimer Nighfs Dream. Act V, Scene I. Where definitions are attempted [of insanity], especially in courts of law, they fitly become a matter of ridicule, or causes of contradiction and perplexity. Mental derangement, however the name may be used, is not one thing, nor can it be treated as such. It differs in kind not less than in degree; and in each of its varieties we may often trace through different cases all the gradations between a sound and unsound understanding, on the very points where reason is thus \ disordered.—Sir Henry Holland, Chapters on Menial Physiology, 1852, page no. # I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21453433_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
