Insanity curable : mental disorders and nervous affections of recent origin or long standing : their cause are now successfully treated by a new especial method / by George Moseley.

  • Moseley, George
Date:
1886
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Credit: Insanity curable : mental disorders and nervous affections of recent origin or long standing : their cause are now successfully treated by a new especial method / by George Moseley. 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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    centres, Aleoliol yields the simplest instance in illustration of the disturbing effects on mind of a foreign matter introduced into the blood from withoLit—here, where each phase of an artificially produced insanity is passed through successively in a brief space of time, we have the abstract and brief chronicle of the history of insanity. {Dr. Maudsley.) In these instances the brain quickly resumes its healthy action, so soon as the particular poisons are eliminated from the blood— they differ, however, in no essential quality from those more intense and more permanent conditions that pertain to insanity. For the right understanding of the subject, the great point to be kept in view is—that insanity in its origin, has more to do with the fluid than with the solid matter of the body ; is more dependent upon the composition of the blood than upon the actual state of the brani- structures. The view here expressed derives much support from this fact—that nervous diseases of all kinds are, in very cold as well as very hoi climates, much more uncommon than in a climate like our owm In a very hot climate, the necessarily excessive action of the skin umloubtedly tends to keep the blood pure—while in the extreme of cold, constant com- bustion is necessary for keeping up the bodily heat I and in this process of active combustion, the blood- impurities are burnt up before reaching a dangerous degree of accumulation. B
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