Practical manual of mental medicine / with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball. Authorized translation by H. M. Bannister. With introduction by the author.
- Emmanuel Régis
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical manual of mental medicine / with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball. Authorized translation by H. M. Bannister. With introduction by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![After Galen everything fell into obscurity and confusion. Alexander of Tralles (A. D. 560) and Paul of Eoina (A. D. 630) brought out nothing new in regard to insanity, and as to the Arab physicians Avecenna, Rhazes (10th century) they confined them- selves to developing the ideas of Galen as to insanity by consensus, the seat of which they placed in different viscera, and especially in the liver and spleen. THIRD EPOCH. {Epoch of transition). 1. The Middle Age*. During the whole duration of the middle ages the study of insanity lost itself in the general chaos and no traces of it were to be found. The belief in demons dominated all imaginations; superstition spread itself in all parts; it was the reign of sorcery, of the witches' Sabbath, of demonopathy, of lycan- thropy and of demoniac possession. Thus occuiTcd in all parts, those terrible epidem- ics of hysterical religious insanity, the detailed his- tory of which Calmeil has preserved, all of which, after a series of exorcisms, and of more or less sol- emn mystical ceremonies, ended in the condemnation of the unfortunate insane and their ])unishmcnt by torture or execution. Thousands of unhappy beings, victims of popular prejudice, atoned witb their lives for their loss of reason and became the prey of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209819_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
