The mental symptoms of brain disease : an aid to the surgical treatment of insanity, due to injury, haemorrhage, tumours, and other circumscribed lesions of the brain / by Bernard Hollander.

  • Hollander, Bernard, 1864-1934.
Date:
1910
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Credit: The mental symptoms of brain disease : an aid to the surgical treatment of insanity, due to injury, haemorrhage, tumours, and other circumscribed lesions of the brain / by Bernard Hollander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    55th Meeting of the German Alienists at Breslau. He had received with a cane from his teacher a blow over the left parietal region for a slight offence. Five days after the receipt of the injury patient had a paroxysm of fear accompanied by trembling of all the muscles, painful sensations over the heart, and hallucinations inspiring great fear. He made self- accusations. Two days later came delusions as to his going to be hanged. He regained his perfect mental stability. One more example of recovery. M. Gamberini (Bulletine delle szienze mediche di Torino, vol. i.):— A banker, aged 34, with a history of syphilis, fell from a height on to the left parietal bone. He had severe headache subsequently, and epileptiform attacks, first slight, then growing in severity, and frequently his mental state was that of melancholia. His expression was that of sadness and anxiety, and he had a fixed stare. The bone was swollen at the seat of injury. Antisyphilitic treatment not only made the swelling disappear but cured the melan- cholia and epileptiform attacks. Another interesting example. H. A. Powell {The Surgical Aspect of Traumatic Insanity, 1893):— A case is reported by Mr. Gay (Medico-Chirur. Soc. Meeting, 25th November 1879) in which a man received an injury to the parietal region, followed by necrosis. He was for the following five years despondent and suicidally inclined. He was brought into the hospital after an attempt to drown himself.