The blot upon the brain : studies in history and psychology / [William W. Ireland].

Edinburgh : Bell & Bradfute, 1893.

vii, 388 pages ; 23 cm

2nd. ed.

Several of the papers first appeared in the Journal of mental science, and in Brain. cf. Pref

Copy 3 Supplier/Donor: BMA

On hallucinations, especially of sight and hearing.--The hallucinations of Mohammed, Luther.--On the character and hallucinations of Joan of Arc.--The insanity of power.--The history of the hereditary neurosis of the royal family of Spain.--On St. Francis Xavier, the apostle of the Indies.--On fixed ideas.--Folie ā deux--a mad family.--Unconscious cerbration.--Thought without words and reltions of words to thought.--Left-handedness and right-headedness.--On mirror-writing.--On the dual functions of the double brain.