An exposition of the signs and symptoms of pregnancy : the period of human gestation, and the signs of delivery / By W.F. Montgomery.

  • Montgomery, W. F. (William Fetherston Haugh), 1797-1859.
Date:
1839
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Credit: An exposition of the signs and symptoms of pregnancy : the period of human gestation, and the signs of delivery / By W.F. Montgomery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    PAGE 32 CHAPTER VIII. Mental treatment of Insanity considered relatively to its causes. Preventive Mental Treatment. Reiioious Considerations. ...... Difficulties in ascertaining character. .... Unintentional deceit practised in this point. Real co-existence supposed incompatible. ....... Choice of profession considered. ..... Rules for preserving mental health amid professional pursuits. Importance of uniting unprofessional pursuits with them. Curative Mental Treatment. CHAPTER IX. Physical treatment of insanity. ...... Mental and physical influences produce equivalent physical effects. Physical treatment referable to temperament, in the employment of- Depletory agents;........ Tonics; .......... Sedatives; ......... Counter-irritants. ........ [These measures are considered separately in their application to the three stages of insanity.] CHAPTER X.—On Brutality. Distinguishing features of Insanity re-stated, and contrasted with those of Bru- tality. The latter disease traced to deficiency of the Moral sense. .... Principles of treatment deduced from this supposition. ..... What men will not do, as being right, they must do, as being ordered to do it. The class of persons to whom this principle is applicable, left uneducated, or ill- educated, owing to its non-application ; punished, when convicted of criminal acts, not taught to avoid them ; e. g. Lord Ferrars. ..... Discrepancies between these views and some contained in a former Essay by the Author, explained 51 CHAPTER XL—On Idiocy. Idiocy analogous to brutality, as bearing the same relation to the understanding, which brutality bears to the heart. 52 Points of difference, affecting the restraints applicable to these slates. . . 52 Idiocy congenital, or supervening on other states. ...... 52 Illustrative cases. ............ 52 The least decided cases, the most difficult of management.—Case. ... 54 General principles of treatment, mental and physical. ..... 55 Remarkable case, illustrating the danger of precipitate conclusions as to the existence of confirmed Idiocy 56 CHAPTER XII. Recapitulation. ............ 58 Omissions supplied, viz.:— Critical terminations of Insanity. 58 32 34 34 34 34 34 36 40 41 41 41 45 45 47 47 49 50 50 Use of nauseating remedies in the physical treatment of Insanity. Use and abuse of employment in its mental treatment. Relative importance of physical and mental treatment. Caution against making the brctal state a ground of exculpation. Success in the treatment of Idiocy, how most likely to be attained. Views of the late Dr. Gooch 59 59 59 60 60 60 APPENDIX. Note I.—On Dugald Stewart's theory of dreaming. Referred to page 5. . 61 II.—On Mesmerism. Referred to page 7. ...... 61 III.—Adam Smith's theory of the morbid nature of suicide. Referred to page 28 62 IV.—History of Temperaments. Referred to page 41. .... 63 V.—Character of Tiberius. Referred to page 48. . . . . .67 VI.—Aristotle's division of vice. Referred to page 49. .... 68 VII.—Case, illustrative of the second form of mental disease, or brutality; and its treatment. Referred to page 50. 68