A treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind / By James Cowles Prichard.

  • Prichard, James Cowles, 1786-1848.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind / By James Cowles Prichard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.—I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY: NOSOGRAPHY OF THE DISEASE AND OF ITS VARIOUS FORMS. PAGE Difficulty of the definition. Method attempted by Heinroth, Fodere, Georget, Guislain, Broussais, and Jacobi 1 Nosography, including description of the various forms of madness. Limited notion of Locke and of Cullen . . .2 Different forms of insanity. Partial Insanity, or Monomania, Raving Madness or Mania, and Incoherence, included under Intellectual Insanity, or derangement of the understanding . . .4 Moral insanity . . . . . .4 Moral insanity imperfectly described by nosologists Pinel’s description His examples not sufficiently characteristic Nosography of the four forms of insanity. .... 6 1. Moral insanity 2. Monomania, or partial derangement of the understanding 3. Mania or raving madness 4. Incoherence or dementia General nosography of insanity, including a description of the four forms Notes on the preceding Chapter. Professor Ileinroth’s distribution of the forms of insanity Three departments of mental disorder distinguished by Hein- roth. Insanity of the affection (des gemiiths)—of the under- standing—and of the will or voluntary powers Reasons for preferring the arrangement before adopted