Cerebral hyperaemia, the result of mental strain or emotional disturbance.

  • Hammond, William A. (William Alexander), 1828-1900.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Cerebral hyperaemia, the result of mental strain or emotional disturbance. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ently without reason, and again, there is an impossibility of arriving at a decision, in cases where ordinarily, but little reflection would be necessary. I have known a patient suffering from the disorder in question, take several thousand dollars every dav for a month or more, to Wall Street, fully resolved, when he left his house, how to invest his money, but always returning with his purpose unfulfilled—a prey to doubts for which he could give no sufficient cause even to himself. I IlliLsioiis, hallucinations or dehisionSy may be pres- ent, but are not usually fixed; and the patient will I often laugh at the absurd images he has seen, voices he has heard or ideas he has entertained not five minutes before. Persons thus affected will often reason clearly in regard to apparitions or voices of the unreality of which, they are fully sensible. A condition very often present is a morbid apprc- \ /tension of impejtding evil, for which there is no assignable cause, and the nature of which the patient can rarely define. He is sure something will happen to him, but what, he does not know; or if he does designate the form of trouble to ensue, he changes from one kind to another without any more reason than he had for the erroneous idea in the first place. I Again, he is afraid that he may do some injurious act either against himself or others, and is hence fearful of being left alone. One patient was afraid to cross the ferry from Brooklyn lest he might be tempted to