On obscure diseases of the brain and disorders of the mind / by Forbes Winslow.

  • Winslow, Forbes, 1810-1874.
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[1861]
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Credit: On obscure diseases of the brain and disorders of the mind / by Forbes Winslow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —Foreshadowing of insanity-Struggle between reason and insanity—Morbid apprehensions of insanity—Confessions of patients-Insidious advances of morbid thought—Obscene and immoral ideas-Singular perversion of thought —Illusions premonitory of insanity -Phantasms and spectral illusions—Illusions of hearing (voices)—Singular case of hallucination—Incubation of insanity- Efforts made to conceal insanity—Insane impurity of thought—The insanity ot Ophelia—Indecent remarks of young women whilst insane—Explanation ot the causes of perverted thought—Sources of early moral deterioration—Purity ot thought sometimes exhibited by the insane—Power of controlling insane ideas- Symptoms of incipient insanity—Morbid presentiment of insanity—Prediction of attacks of apoplexy—Sir W. Scott's anticipation of brain disease—Dean Swift's presentiment of his approaching imbecility—Morbid anticipation of in- sanity 200 239 CHAPTER VIII. STAGE OF EXALTATION. Psychical exaltation—State of mind premonitory of insanity—Morbid exaggeration of ideas—Emotional exaltation—Suicidal delirium connected with great exalta- tion of spirits—Wit, ingenuity, and cunning of the insane—Mental acut.eness of the insane—Poetical enthusiasm in mania—Mental abilities of the insane— Symptoms of insanity in young women—Peculiar type of mental disease—Self- control and shrewdness of the insane—Art of analysing subtle cases of insanity —Feigned insanity unmasked by chloroform—Concealment of delusions by the insane—Subtle case of homicidal insanity—Cunning, cleverness, and subtlety of the insane—Acute instinctive manifestations of the insane—Subtlety of the insane metaphysically explained—Symptoms of insanity—The physical agitation of incipient insanity—Tortures of a wicked conscience—Happy type of insanity— Horace's description of the happy madman—Premonitory signs of apoplexy— Disease of the brain caused by a blow upon the head—Insidious symptoms of general paralysis—Obscure case of general paralysis . . . 230—2^3 CHAPTER IX. STAGE OF MENTAL DEPEESSION. Acute morbid melancholy—Symptoms of brain disease—Concealed delusions—Subtle types of suicidal insanity—Melancholia a symptom of softening of the brain— Apoplexy preceded by depression of spirits ..... 2(^.-266 CHAPTER X. STAGE OF ABERRATION. Obscure progress of aberration of mind—Exaggeration and perversion of ideas— Disorder of the perceptive faculties—Delusions, how they originate—Illusions premonitory of apoplexy—Illusions of hearing—Illusions premonitory of disease of the brain —Singular case of spectral illusions—Perversious of the moral sense— Insane pilfering and concealing—Insanity manifested by avarice and licentiousness —Insanity exhibited by acts of immorality—Softening of the brain . 267—291 CHAPTER XI. IMPAIRMENT OF MIND. Insidious advances of mental imbecility—Symptoms of softening of the brain and apoplexy—Subtle case of softening of the brain—Singular case of cerebral paralysis—Lesions of intelligence preceding disease of the brain—Impaired nutrition of the brain ........ 292 — 299