Insomnia and nerve strain / by Henry S. Upson ; with skiagraphic illustrations.

  • Upson, Henry Swift, 1859-1913.
Date:
1908
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Insomnia and nerve strain / by Henry S. Upson ; with skiagraphic illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    THE EMOTIONS Manic - depressive Insanity. —For- merly all of the insanities more or less emotional in expression and not otherwise classified were included in mania and melancholia. The conception of the psychoses here presented is that they are due to a common set of physical causes, and merges all neuroses and psychoses as one essential process with infinitely varied results, like the har- monies and discords of a piano with one key-board and one performer. No essen- tial difference in symptoms exists between the different psychoses, as they blend in infinite variety. Mania and melancholia are only somewhat more predominantly emotional than the others and the results of study of the emotions in these disorders are equally applicable to other members of the functional group. Considering then melancholia and mania as the psychoses predominantly emotional, a study of their phenomena compared with the emotions which con-