Practical observations on mental and nervous disorders / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock ; illustrated with cases.

  • Maddock, Alfred Beaumont.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Practical observations on mental and nervous disorders / by Alfred Beaumont Maddock ; illustrated with cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    abnormal structure of those organs most obviously and prominently affected, lias consequently disre- garded or overlooked the altered and morbid aspects of parts remote from, or apparently uncon- nected with, the presumed seat of the disorder. . Although no medicine exists, technically speak- ing, antimaniacal—no medicinal febrifuge for the exacerbations of the mind—no evacuant -which can relieve the spiritual portion of our frame fr'om the load which oppresses or disturbs the freedom of its operations ; yet, an extended experience has well convinced the author that the wonted vigour and serenity of the mind, thrown off its balance by some erring fibre or faulty secretion, may, in most instances, by attention and judicious treat- ment, be restored to its pristine integrity. But while there are few maladies which are ca- pable of more successful treatment than those which are termed nervous, when the indications of cure are readily perceived and appropriately employed, with all due adaptation to the varying forms and features of individual cases; yet it must be admitted, that there are certainly none in which a more comprehensive knowledge of morbid