Hallucinations and illusions : a study of the fallacies of perception / by Edmund Parish.
- Edmund Parish
- Date:
- 1897
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Credit: Hallucinations and illusions : a study of the fallacies of perception / by Edmund Parish. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![question as to their frequency in psychoneuroscs. In epilepsy they are specially characteristic of the aura which precedes the attack, and though often little more than vague sense-impressions (red light in a case of Gowers', the noise of machinery in one of Bennet's), they not infrequently occur as fully developed hallucinations.^ Generally they are of a disagreeable nature. Thus Gregory mentions the case of a patient in whom the seizure was always preceded by the apparition of a hideous old woman in a red cloak, who advanced and struck him on the head with her cane, whereupon he fell to the ground in convulsions. In another case the devil appeared in a shadowy form. Sometimes the apparitions are less frightful. ConoUy tells of a patient who saw, in the last few moments before loss of consciousness, pleasant landscapes spread out before him. In other cases voices are heard. Olfactory hallucinations are also reported as occurring before the attack, or rather in the intervals between and alternating with them.^ ^ Compare Hagen, Die Sinnestcitisclmngen^ p. 179; Bottex, op. cit. (feeling, smell, taste); Szafkowski, op. cit., p. 149; Michea, op. cit., chap. XV., among 28 epileptics found 13 hallucinations, chiefly of hearing and sight; Blumroder, in his review of Michea's work in Schmidt's Jahrhilchern, Iviii. p. 118; L. Meyer, Visionen einer Epileptischen, Allg. Zeitschr. f. Psych., xiv.; Brierre de Boismont, op. cit., pp. 20S et seq.; Billot^ Considerations sur la Symptomatologie de I'Epilepsie, Ann. MeJ. Psych. (1843), p. 384; Griesinger, op. cit.^ p. 411; Esquirol, Des Maladies Mentales (see Hunt's translation, 1845); V. Y.x?Si\.-YX)\x\g, LeJirlmchderPsychiatrie, ^^^etseq.; Emming- haus, Allgemeine Psychopathologie (1878), pp. 346-348; M. Schunk, Casiiistische Beitrdgez. epil. Psychose (1890), pp. 6-8 ; Ernst Hjertstrom, in the No7'd. Med. Aj'k., xv. 2, No. 10 (1883), on Epileptic Insanity. 2 Paget, in Catal. of the Royal Coll. of Surg., 2128, 2129; further, JMed. Times and Gaz., 13th Aug. 1864, p. 168 ; Lancet, i6th June 1866 ; Ophthalin. Hosp. Rep., v., part iv., pp. 295, 304; Griesinger, op. cit., p. 100; Hughlings Jackson, ]\fed. Times and Gaz. (1868), p. 231; Sander, Arch, f Psych. (1873), p. 234. 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2107141x_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
