Volume 1

Observations on madness and melancholy: including practical remarks on those diseases together with cases: and an account of the morbid appearances on dissection / By John Haslam.

  • John Haslam
Date:
1809
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Credit: Observations on madness and melancholy: including practical remarks on those diseases together with cases: and an account of the morbid appearances on dissection / By John Haslam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tenance would -recal the idea [or name] of some particular person. I have known many cases of patients who insisted that they had seen the devil. It might be urged, that in these instances, the perception was vitiated; but it must be observed there could be no perception of that, which was not present and existing at the time. Upon desiring these patients to describe what they had seen, they all represented, him as a big, -black man, with a long tail, and sharp talons, such as is seen pictured in books; a proof that the idea was revived in the mind from some former im- pressions. One of these patients however carried the matter a little further, as she solemnly declared, she heard him break the iron chain with which God had con- fined him, and saw him pass fleetly by her window, with a truss of straw upon: his shoulder.
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