The morbid anatomy of the brain, in mania and hydrophobia : with the pathology of these two diseases, as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal ... : with an account of some experiments, to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey.

Date:
1815
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Credit: The morbid anatomy of the brain, in mania and hydrophobia : with the pathology of these two diseases, as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal ... : with an account of some experiments, to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Those who become insane generally have ill-formed heads. The skull is small, and too flat at the sides ; the forehead is often narrow and prominent forwards. The fossae in the basis of the skull are also often small; not leaving sufficient room for the basis of the brain and origin of the nerves. Also a peculiar state of irritability in the cerebral arteries may render a person more highly susceptible to the disease. Perhaps this is the way in which the bad conforma- tion of the head already mentioned tends to produce the disease. It also seems to have passed in Dr. Mar- shaFs mind, that the heart itself might be the foundation of the peculiar susceptibility to the disease—for he observes, that deformed persons most frequently become insane; and generally such have ill-formed and diseased hearts.