Observations on the nature, kinds, causes, and prevention, of insanity / by Thomas Arnold.

Date:
1806
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    exceedingly dry ; mishaped (30);—replete with blood (31);—remarkably soft (32),—or, on the contrary, remarkably hard (33);—a scirrhous tu- mor has been observed upon the corpus cal- losum (34),—or in other parts, compressing the brain (35);—vesicles in the corpus callosum (36); '—scirrhous tumors in the plexus choroides(37); —the brain less than natural (38), — inflamed, and corroded (39),—a good deal of water in the brain (40);—a dropsy in the brain (41)—*a stone (30) Pozzi, p. 88. (31) Bonet. Obs, 11. Forst. de sensib. intern, p. 56. Barrere ed. nov. ex hyoscyami radice, p. 54, seqq. (32) Bonet. Obs. 2, 5, 16, L, X. p. 318. Histoir. de I'Acad. 1705. Obs. 17> 1704. Obs. 12. Cum glandula pltui- taria magna, memoria deleta et judicium destruftum Vieus- SENS nov. syst. vas. fin. (33) Morgag. I. p. 55. (34) Bonet. Obs. 4. Plater, Obs. 51. Wepfer de Apoplex. p. 277. Bauhin. Theatr. p. 305. (35) Duverney de I’ouie, p. 100. Flaivierding de Apo- plex. (36) Obs. 12, aut in cerebro. Opusc. scientif. III. p. l62. (37) Boehmek, 1. c. (38) Bonet. Obs. 9, 10. Ad tertiam partem consumtura cum aqua inter meninges, King Phil. Coll. 1686. (39) Rumler, 1. c. Coiter, p. Ill, (40) Santorin. p. 54. Boehmer, prsef, fascic. I. p. xvh xvii. Bonet, Obs. 1,4, 7, 13, 14, 15, 20. Chxfflet Obs. Hue historia surdi et muti, qui auditum recuperavit, cum aqua de aure effluxisset.—Histoire de I'Academie des Sciences, 1703, p. 18. (41) L. X. p. 319. in