Aktuelles aus der Geschichte der ärztlichen Standes / [Max Neuburger].

  • Max Neuburger
Date:
1919
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Credit: Aktuelles aus der Geschichte der ärztlichen Standes / [Max Neuburger]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Burrow’s work appeared in German translation under the title: Unter¬ suchungen über gewisse, die Geisteszerrüttung betreffende Irrthümer, etc. übersetzt mit einer Abhandlung über die Seelengesundheit, von I. C. A. Heinroth, Leipzig, 1822. There were two schools of alienists among the Germans, the psychical and the somatic, both with varieties. Heinroth is considered as the representative of the psychical school. His dogma reads: “ Insanity never depends upon a physical cause.” Hoffbauer, F. E. Beneke,13 Ideler,14 are generally ranged under his banner. Diametrically opposed to the psychical was the somatic school, represented by Nasse,15 Horn 16 and I. B. Friedreich.17 Thev directed the attention in the strongest manner to the bodily causes of insanity. Maximilian Jacobi, in his Beobachtungen über die Pathologie der mit Irrsinn ver¬ bundenen Krankheiten (Elberfeld, 1830), enunciated the somato-aetio- logical theory that “ there is no disease of the mind existing as such, but that insanity exists solely as the consequence of disease, either functional or organic, in some part of the bodily System.” James Cowles Prichard’s Treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind, London, 1835, was long the Standard work on this branch of medicine. In “ Prefatory Observations,” the author says that “ although many excellent treatises exist on various matters connected with mental derangement in the English, French and German language; there is yet not one work extant in either of them which exhibits the present state of knowledge and opinions, on the whole subject of diseases affecting the mind. To supply this want ... I feit desirous . . . of drawing up, in a deliberate manner and with unconfined space a more complete 13 Beiträge zu einer rein seelenwissenschaftlichen Bearbeitung der Seelenkrankheiten. (Leipzig, 1824.) 14 Grundriss der Seelenheilkunde. (Berlin, 1835-1838.) 15 Friedrich Nasse founded Zeitschrift für psychische Ärzte, and edited with Jacobi Zeitschrift für Beurteilung und Heilung krankhafter Seelenzustände (1838). 16 Oe ff entliehe Rechtfertigung über meine zwölfjährige Dienstführung. (Berlin, 1838.) Ernst Horn, the first clinical psychiatrist of Berlin, was an early advocate of the theory that mental diseases have a purely physical basis. He constructed a sort of cart fit to hold four lunatics, which was drawn by thirty of their companions, who take their turn to ride and be pulled along. This exercise is performed in the alleys of the gardens, and under the eyes of inspectors. The course along which the cart is to be driven is marked out beforehand, and the greatest regularity is observed in the performance, which, according to Horn, has been found a very efficacious resource for exercise and diversion, and has tended to the improvement of many patients. 17 Historisch-Kritische Darstellung der Theorien über das Wesen und den Sitz der psychischen Krankheiten (Leipzig, 1836). 2
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