Observations on madness and melancholy : including practical remarks on those diseases together with cases : and an account of the morbid appearances on dissection / by John Haslam.

Date:: 1809

Credit: Observations on madness and melancholy : including practical remarks on those diseases together with cases : and an account of the morbid appearances on dissection / by John Haslam. 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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$ing to the etymology of those terms, which have been considered as significant of mind and its operations. Every one will be able sufficiently to develope imagination, re- flection, combination, [as applied to ideas, importing the amalgamation of two into one] abstraction, [vide Mr. 7bo/i’e, from p.\5 to 426, voL ii.] and a variety of others; and to shew, that they have arisen from physical objects, and the circumstances which surround us, and are independant of any operation which mind has elaborated. But as madness, by some, has been ex- clusively held to be a disease of the imagi- nation, and by others, to be a defect of the judgment; considering these as separate and independant powers or faculties of the in- tellect; it is certainly worth the trouble to enquire, whether such states of mind did ever exist as original and unconnected dis- orders. A\^ith respect to imagination, there$