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On feigned and factitious diseases, chiefly of soldiers and seamen, on the means used to simulate or produce them, and on the best modes of discovering impostors: being the prize essay in the class of military surgery, in the University of Edinburgh, session 1835-6, with additions / By Hector Gavin.

  • Hector Gavin
Date:
1843
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Credit: On feigned and factitious diseases, chiefly of soldiers and seamen, on the means used to simulate or produce them, and on the best modes of discovering impostors: being the prize essay in the class of military surgery, in the University of Edinburgh, session 1835-6, with additions / By Hector Gavin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Page GENERAL RULES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF THE SI- MULATION OF DISEASE = - - = 36 Hutchison’s plan for operating on the minds of skulkers 42 Impropriety of resorting to punishment of impostors - ib. The discovery of truth our sole duty ~ oe 44 Evil consequences of the success of malingerers - 45 __Basis of classifiction, our means of diagnosis - - wen beg he art ot ey GS * bY e =] Advantages of such a classification ~ - 49 Classification of feigned diseases according to various authors: 51 Author’s classification - - - = 54 1.—DISEASES OF THE INTELLECTUAL ORGANS LIABLE TO BE FEIGNED. INSANITY, Relative facility of assuming its various forms - 120, 123 ~ MANIA, - Symptoms of and objects for which assumed - ~ 123 Frequency of incorrect diagnosis - : ~ 124 Prevalent idea as to its facility of simulation - - 126 Considerations to be regarded in the investigation - - 127 _ Hints and rules for a differential diagnosis - - 130 - MONOMANIA Symptoms of, and hints for its detection = - +152 ERREUR DE SENTIMENT ~ _- - = 154 _MORAL INSANITY, Definition - > - - - 155 Unrecognised in English Courts - - - - 158 HOMICIDAL MORAL INSANITY, Arguments for its real existence - - - 159 Frequency of the execution of morally insane homicides - 160 Causes of attempts to murder by the insane - - ad. Varieties of homicidal monomania - 161 Differential diagnosis between the homicidal moralemaniiae and the murderer ~ - - * - 162 DEMENTIA, IMBECILITY, : Differential diagnosis of imbecility in the first degree - - 170 Facility of the simulation of partial dementia - -171 Differential diagnosis - - - - - 172 NOSTALGIA, Difficulty of its simulation, and differential diagnosis yo shld. 2.—OF THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM, ‘ PAIN 3 ifs ” ° a z Bae ae 57 Facility and frequency of its pretension = - - - ib.