Volume 1

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quaedam de mania complectens / [George Murray Paterson].

  • Paterson, George Murray, 1796-1829.
Date:
1817
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quaedam de mania complectens / [George Murray Paterson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mente perturbatá, totas noctes, interdum heb- domadas, vix unquam somnum captat, insomnia- que eum terrent, modó horrida, modó prorsüs ludicra. Interdum preter naturam se gerit; primüm pede citó currit, dein simulacri instar subitó stat, oculisque solo fixis, diu tacet, ct qua- Si ex imo pectore cogitans, secum mussitat. Pauló postea irà accensus furit, viribusque ejus mirabilé auctus, adeó contendit ut vinculis z:egré cohiberi queat. Dum ita se habet, quàm tran- sit gloria viri! Feroci eum bellue similem, üment omnes ac fugiunt! MEp1vs, de hoc mor- bo agens, ita deplorat : ** T'here is no disease more * to be dreaded than Madness, for what greater * unhappiness can befal a man than to be de- * prived of his reason and understanding,—to * attack his fellow creature with fury! like a * wild-beast, to be tied down, and even beat, to * prevent his doing mischief to himself or o- thers) Attamen dementes nonnunquam su- | perbià inflantur, summosque sibi petunt honores, animosque rebus pascentes inanibus facile esse credunt principes et reges. — Hinc postulant, imperant, et omnia in terra ac coelo opinantur
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