An essay on the use of narcotics and other remedial agents calculated to produce sleep in the treatment of insanity / [Joseph Williams].

  • Williams, Joseph, 1814-1882
Date:
1845
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Credit: An essay on the use of narcotics and other remedial agents calculated to produce sleep in the treatment of insanity / [Joseph Williams]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.—lImportance of the subject—Agents producing sleep, although not narcotics—Examples—All narcotics act primarily as stimulants—Vigilantia in barristers, university students, &c.—-Importance of early treatment—Advantage of pro- curing sleep—Disastrous consequences if not occurring—TInsanity often prevented if sleep is obtained—Cause of restlessness, often primarily nervous, subsequently inflammatory . Page1—8 CLASSIFICATION.—Monomania—Mania and Idiotism—Delirium Tre- mens—INsANITY—Causes, remote, exciting, predisposing, heredi- tary—Sympathy between the brain and organs of reproduction— Conceptive, parturient, puerperal, lacteal, and erotic—Primary cause of Insanity—Symptomatic— Idiopathic — Physical—Meta- physical—Examples—Pathological investigations—Difference be- tween maniacal irritation and inflammation—Importance of a correct diagnosis— Prognosis ° ! : . 9—28 BLEEDING.—General, local—Cupping— Leeching—Cautions respect- ing— Diet : : : ° : . 29—39 PuRGATIVES.—Enemata — Emetics—Antimonializing. N aroorics.—Opium-—Laudanum—Rousseau’s landanum—Black-drop —The Liquor Opii Sedativus—Opiate enemata—Opiate frictions— Narcotic frictions—Morphia, the hydrochlorate, the acetate— Idiocy