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An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement. Comprehending a concise system of the physiology and pathology of the human mind and a history of the passions and their effects / by Alexander Crichton ... [etc.].

  • Crichton, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1856.
Date:
1798
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    the mind are difordered. But what appears ftill more lingular is this; that Dr. A. defcribes the difeafe which al- raoft all phyficians have agreed to call hypochondriafis, not only as a fpecies of ideal infanity, which he choofes to call fenjitive infanity; but alfo as a fpecies of notional infanity, which he deno- minates hypochondriacal infanity. His de- finition of fenfrtive infanity is this.— ** By fenfitive infanity I mean that in which the diforder (hews itfelf chiefly, or remarkably, in the erroneous images which are excited in the mind, rela- tive to the perfon's own for?ni fub- fiance', or other fenjible qualities or con- tents; and which are not only contrary to truth, but often inconfiftent with the nature of things, and almoft al- ways contradictory to the teftimony of thofe about them. He then proceeds to tell us, that of the patients who* la- bour under this infanity, fome imagine them-