Clinical lectures on mental diseases : To which is added, an Abstract of the statutes of the United States, and of the several states and territories, relating to the custody of the insane / by Charles F. Folsom.

  • Clouston, T. S. (Thomas Smith), 1840-1915.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Clinical lectures on mental diseases : To which is added, an Abstract of the statutes of the United States, and of the several states and territories, relating to the custody of the insane / by Charles F. Folsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PAGE Only 1.8 per cent. died. Treatment.—Same as for insanity of puberty. Signs and Accompaniments of Recovery.—Perfect development of form and mamma;—Growth of beard and sexual hair—Change of voice—Psycho- logically and bodily they emerge from attack men and women—Case from K. Q. to K. V., ■ ■ ■ 375 LFCTURE XVII. CLIMACTERIC INSANITY. Normal psychology and physiological characteristics of period. Mental Symp- toms in Typical Case.—Loss of keen interest in life—Pits of depression— Capacity for work diminished—Irritability—Suspicion. Sense of Fear and Impending Danger.—Change of connubial affection—Suicidal longings —Vague melancholic delusions. Bodily Symptoms.—Sensory neuroses— Vertigo—Pains—Sensations of heat—Vaso-motor neuroses, flushings, etc. Motor Symptoms.—Restlessness—Statistics of two hundred and twenty- eight cases—Ages—Character subacute and melancholic—Fifty-three per cent, recovered—Duration of attack. Treatment.—Change of scene— Travel—Change of air and diet—Iron and quinine—Sea-bathing—Presh air—Fattening diet—The bromides—Cases K. V. to K. Y., . . 388 SENILE INSANITY. Normal psychology of old age—Senile insanity—Heredity low—Variety of mental symptoms—Automatic misery and suicidal attempts—Transient cases—Short delirium before death—The dotards—Senile suspicions—Re- fusal of food—Ages—Thirty-five per cent, recovered—Mortality. Pa- thology.—Relationship to atheroma of arteries, shrinking of brain, and de- generation and atrophy of cells of convolutions—Apoplexies—Softenings. Treatment and management.—Nursing—Support—Sedatives—Stimulants —Diet—Cases L. A. to L. G-., . . . . . .395 LECTURE XVIII. THE RARER AND LESS IMPORTANT CLINICAL VARIETIES OF MENTAL DISTURBANCES. 1. Ana?mic insanity—2. Diabetic insanity—3. The insanity of Bright's disease —4. The insanity of oxaluria and phosphaturia—5. The insanity of cyanosis from bronchitis, asthma, and cardiac disease—6. Metastatic insanity—7. Post-febrile insanity—8. Insanity from deprivation of the senses—9. The mental disturbance of myxcedema—10. Insanity associated with exoph- thalmic goitre—11. The delirium and mental disturbances of young children—12. The insanity of lead-poisoning—13. Post-connubial in- sanity—14. The pseudo-insanity of somnambulism, 411