Essentials of legal medicine, toxicology and hygiene : with 130 illustrations / by C.E. Armand Semple.
- Semple, C. E. Armand (Charles Edward Armand), 1845-1895
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essentials of legal medicine, toxicology and hygiene : with 130 illustrations / by C.E. Armand Semple. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![believed lie was hearing marvellous tragedies, a happy sitter.and applauder in an empty theatre — Qui so credcbat miros audirc Iragccu'os, ]n vacuo Iteius sessuv plausorque theatre-. In another class, a man will think himself secretary to the moon, or that he is the Crystal Palace, and in a third class the excitement of some strong emotion or passion, as pride, vanity, or love of gain, may fill the mind with intellectual delusions, so tl at an individual will state that he has composed Homer's Iliad,'or painted a masterpiece of Rubens. A Delusion is an affection of the mind, a chimerical thought, whilst an Illusion is an affection of the senses, a counterfeit appearance : thus it is customary to speak of a delusion of the mind, an illusion of the senses. An Ballncinationis that sensation which is supposed by the patient to be produced by external impressions, although no material object acts upon his senses at the time. An illusion is a sensation produced by a false perception of objeets. If the illusion or hallucination is believed by the patient to possess a positive existence, and this belief is not removed upon reflection or by appealing to the other senses, the individual is insane; should, however, the false sensation he instantly dis- covered by the judgment, and not acted upon as if it had an actual existence, the individual is sane. Partial Intellectual Mania, or Monomania, in its simplest form is a disease of the mind in which the patient becomes impressed with some notion contradictory to common sense and universal experience —viz., that he is a cat or a dog, a goose-pie, or a pisce of glass. Moral Mania has been defined as a morbid perversion of the natural feelings, affections, inclinations, temper, habits, and moral lispositions, without any notable lesion of the intellect, or know- ing and reasoning faculties, and particularly without any maniacal hallucination. Partial Moral Mania.—In this some one propensity or passion predominates. The forms are the following:— Kleptomania, a propensity to theft. This is most common in women in prosperous circumstances. A case is on record, how- ever, of a man who would never eat food unless he stole it. Dipsomania, an insatiable craving for drink—sometimes inter- mittent, sometimes continuous. The patient ps quite rational when the influence of the drink is withdrawn. Erotomania, or amorous madness. This is called Nymphomania. when occurring in women, and in men, Satyriasis. This uncon- trollable desire for sexual intercourse may occur in virtuous females who become filled with horror and remorse. Pyromania, an impulse to incendiarism, more common in women who are subject to menstrual troubles. Homicidal mania, a propensity to murder, may exist indepen- dently of delnskmj it is more common in women, especially when,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21004237_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
