Insanity Its Classification Diagnosis And Treatment

2000, Gift of the South Carolina State Hospital.

Excerpt from Insanity, Its Classification, Diagnosis, and Treatment: A Manual for Students and Practitioners of Medicine The present work was originally intended to cover no other ground than the Definition, Classification, and Diagnosis of Insanity. The requests and suggestions of his pupils and professional friends have induced the writer to enlarge the original essay to the dimensions of a general treatise. In so doing, special stress has been laid on those points which will probably prove comparatively new to many American readers, and which it might be naturally expected would find a place in the first systematic treatise on insanity published on this side of the Atlantic since the days of the immortal Rush. The individual views of the writer concerning classification, the desirability of re-establishing the group of the monomanias, the pathogenesis of paretic dementia, the mechanism of delusions, and the relation of somatic anomalies to transmitted insanity have been previously published in journal articles in the Medical Gazette, St. Louis Clinical Record, the Chicago Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, the American Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry, and particularly in the supplement of the latter - the W. S. Tuke memorial essay on the "Somatic Etiology of Insanity." For fuller literary references than it was deemed well to introduce in a manual intended for the general practitioners use, the reader is referred to the articles published in the periodicals mentioned. A full bibliography will accompany the larger work on insanity, which the writer has in preparation and which will appear in a few years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.