A text-book of mental diseases / by Eugenio Tanzi ; authorized translation from the Italian by W. Ford Robertson and T.C. Mackenzie.

  • Tanzi, Eugenio, 1856-1934.
Date:
1909
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Credit: A text-book of mental diseases / by Eugenio Tanzi ; authorized translation from the Italian by W. Ford Robertson and T.C. Mackenzie. 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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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE SEAT OF THE PSYCHICAL PROCESSES I'AOE Historical Note -------- 1 The Present Position of this Problem - - - - 9 The Data of Physiology and Experimental Anatomy - - - 11 The Data of Embryology - - - - - 16 The Data of Human Pathology - - - - - 22 The Data of Normal Anatomy - - - ■ - 23 The Positive Evidence of the Existence of Psychical Centres - 32 CHAPTER II THE CAUSES OF MENTAL DISEASES External Causes - - - - - - - - 38 Somatic Causes - - - - - - - 38 Psychical Causes - - - - - - - 42 Social Causes - 52 Internal Causes - - - - - - 54 Diathesis 54 Psychical Degeneration - - - - - - 56 Heredity 59 CHAPTER III THE ANATOMICAL SUBSTRATUM OF MENTAL DISEASES I. ]\Lvcroscopical Appearances of the Lesions of the Cerebral Cortex - - - - - - - 68 1. Terminal Results of Early Morbid Processes - - - 69 2. Focal and Diffuse Lesions in the Adult - - - - 78 II. Elementary Lesions of the Cerebral Cortex and its Annexes - 83 1. Lesions of the Nerve Cells - - - - - 84 (a) Acute Processes - - - - - - 84 (b) Subacute Processes - - - - - 91 (c) Chronic Processes - - - - - 93 2. Lesions of the Nerve Fibres - - - - - 95 3. Lesions of the Neuroglia - - - - - - 97 4. Lesions of the Vessels and of the Meninges - - - 98 III. Extracortical and Extracerebral Morbid Changes - • 101