Manual of psychiatry / by J. Rogues de Fursac ; translated and edited by A.J. Rosanoff.

  • Marie Henri Joseph Pierre Étienne Rogues de Fursac
Date:
1911
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Credit: Manual of psychiatry / by J. Rogues de Fursac ; translated and edited by A.J. Rosanoff. 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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    representing percentages of the total number of admis- sions for each race at the Manhattan State Hospital during the year ending September 30, 1908. It will be observed that the Irish race is most liable to alcoholic psychoses, while the Jewish race is practically free from them; the latter race, on the other hand, suffers more than the others from the functional psychoses (demen- tia praecox, manic-depressive insanity); the negroes are most liable to general paresis.] Psychoses. Senile psychoses General paresis Alcoholic psychoses Dementia praecox Manic-depressive insanity. Epileptic psychoses Other psychoses Total number of each race 9.80 7.59 27.69 13.48 16.66 2.20 22.58 •a 2.87 14.05 0.32 27.47 28.43 1.59 25 27 O 6.70 20.10 11.85 14.95 12.89 4.64 28.87 £) w 7.14 17.46 11.90 16.66 18.25 3.17 25.42 a 03 — 3.70 9.87 8.64 23.44 13.58 4.93 35.84 9.80 29.41 7.82 13.72 9.80 3.92 25.53 408 313 194 126 81 51 The study of climate likewise gives us but little definite information. While it is indisputable that cer- tain affections, such as cretinism, appear most frequently in certain countries (Valais), it is on the other hand altogether conjectural that the inhabitants of moun- tainous regions are more liable to insanity than those of the plains, as has been stated by some authors.1 A priori it would seem likely that the climate of warm countries exerts a debilitating influence upon the ner- vous system and thus favors the development of mental
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