Cases of insanity, the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders, successfully treated / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West Malling, in Kent.

  • William Perfect
Date:
[1780?]
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Credit: Cases of insanity, the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders, successfully treated / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West Malling, in Kent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE L Gentleman, aged fifty ^eight, was in January 1770, put under my care as an in fane patient. The caufe of his diforder was attributed to a fud- den tranfition in his circumfiances, from eafy and comfortable, to doubt- ful and precarious; his complaints were great pain in the head, continual noife in his ears, at intervals a deprefiion or exaltation of fpirits, his water was very high-coloured, he pafTed whole nights without fleep, fometimes raved, and was convulfed, and his attention was invariably fixed on one object.; namely,
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