A manual of psychological medicine : containing the history, nosology, description, statistics, diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of insanity, with an appendix of cases / by John Charles Bucknill and by Daniel H. Tuke.

  • Bucknill, John Charles, 1817-1897.
Date:
1858
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Credit: A manual of psychological medicine : containing the history, nosology, description, statistics, diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of insanity, with an appendix of cases / by John Charles Bucknill and by Daniel H. Tuke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at the instance of Minerva, who was fabled to have inflicted this dis- order, she responds, according to the poet,—who, as has been well said, sang and showed in grand dramatic rhythm and melody, not a fable, but a fact,— Dost thou then fear To see a madman 1 To which the son of Laertes replies : Were his senses sound I should not fear hun. And when the madman's wife, Tecmessa, is asked, how this sudden ill began, she answers : The night was far advanced; the evening lamps No longer blazed; when, grasping in his hand His dreadful sword, he bent his eager steps Towards the passes, from all haunt now clear. » » • * he issued forth alone. What then befell I know not; he returned Driving in bonds the bulls, the herdsman's dogs, And lowing herds;,some by his sword were slain, ^nd hewn in pieces; some like captives bound, Raging against the flocks, he scourged as men. At length he issued from the tent, and held Long converse with some shadow; of the sons Of Atreus much, and of Ulysses much, He spoke, and laughed aloud, how their base deeds He in this sally amply had revenged. Entering the tent again, his sense at length Slow he regained ; but when he saw the ground With carnage covered thus, he smote his head, And raised a mournful cry ; then prostrate lay. Stretched midst the havoc of the slaughtered flocks, Rending with violence his hair. Long time He lay, nor uttered word; with rigorous threats Then bade me tell him every circumstance Of what had passed, and whence the carnage asked That lay around him ; struck with fear, my friends, Distinct I told him all that had been done, Far as I knew it; straight with mournful cries Loud he lamented ; such from him before I never heard. ■The madness of Orestes is thus graphically described by his sister Electra: . » • . on his bed He lies ; his mother's blood to frenzy whirls