Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane. 1879.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum.
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[1880]
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Credit: Annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane. 1879. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Predis¬ posing. Moral. Physical. TABLE X.—Assigned Causes of Insanity. ' Intemperance Falls on the Head Syphilis ... Opium-Eating ... Sunstroke Meningitis Masturbation Excesses ... Enteritis ... Brain Disease Congenital Old Age ... Epilepsy ... Privation... Fistula in Ano ... Bheumatic Fever Disease of Spinal Cord ... Phthisis ... Anaemia ... Hysteria ... Abortion ... Surgical Operation Amenorrhoea Climacteric Period Over-Lactation ... Piles Hydrocephalus ... Puerperal Period Pneumonia Childbirth Morbus Cordis ... L Erysipelas r Fright Grief Love Disappointment ... Love Affair Over-study Over-work ! Business Anxiety Domestic Anxiety Domestic Affliction Religious Excitement ... Religious Anxiety Privation... Domestic Grievances ^Religious Enthusiasm ... ! Previous Attacks Hereditary Predisposition Unknown Males. Females. ] Total. 34 25 59 6 0 6 3 2 5 1 1 2 3 0 3 1 0 1 3 0 3 6 0 6 1 0 1 14 7 21 6 1 7 2 6 8 4 4 8 o 3 5 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 3 4 1 1 2 0 8 8 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 8 8 0 18 18 0 6 6 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 8 8 0 2 2 0 6 6 0 5 5 0 1 1 1 4 5 4 5 9 0 3 3 2 0 2 6 0 6 4 0 4 19 5 24 3 1 4 0 3 3 3 0 3 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 57 78 135 41 46 87 50 43 83