Methods of cure, in some particular cases of insanity: the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders / [William Perfect].

  • Perfect, William, 1737-1809
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[1778]
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Credit: Methods of cure, in some particular cases of insanity: the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders / [William Perfect]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    confidered as primary diftemper§, dif- tin6l and feparate from Madnefs itfelf. Anxiety, when it arifes from fome fault in the internal frame and conftitution of the nervous fubftance, which is thereby rendered too fenlible like ori¬ ginal Madnefs, and for thp fame rea- fon is not radically curable; but when its only caufe is a laxity or defetl of * thofe external integuments which were O given to the nervous fubftance for its defence; inTuch cafe, Anxiety, how^ ever afflifting, promifes better fuccefs. —And here let me be permitted to add this fenlible writer s annexed ob- feryation on Infeniibility or Idiotifm; which, when arifmg, he fays, from an internal and conftitu.tional defeft of the organs defigned to excite fenfation; or