Insanity curable : mental disorders and nervous affections of recent origin or long standing : their cause are now successfully treated by a new especial method / by George Moseley.

  • Moseley, George
Date:
1886
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Credit: Insanity curable : mental disorders and nervous affections of recent origin or long standing : their cause are now successfully treated by a new especial method / by George Moseley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in his recovery. Of sudden recoveries a good example occurred in a puerperal case we saw not long since at Betlilem. The woman said one day after her dinner that she felt she had recovered her reason, and so it proved; nor had she any relapse. Her expression was, I feel changed and am now quite well. (Drs. Buchnill and Tuhe.) In certain forms of insanity there are lucid intervals — a condition of sanity alternating with insanity. In these cases it is only reasonable to Jook upon the Mood as the cause of such frequently recurring out- breaks. There are many instances of insanity in Gouty and Elieumatic subjects, where the mental disease is distinctly due to the suppression of the customary fit of gout or rheumatism. Such cases have been cured by revulsive measures to the limbs and surflice of the body—such as the application of mustard, turpentine, &c.—with the effect of brinojina: on the desired attack of gout or rheumatism in parts at a distance from the brain. In similar cases, mental outbreaks have alternated with the ordinary gouty or rheumatic attack—according to the choice, on the ]3art of the specific blood-poison, of the limbs or the brain, as the field for its morbid energies. This interchangeableness between mental and certain forms of bodily disease, is not confined to ffout and rheumatism. Anions