Obscure diseases of the brain and mind / by Forbes Winslow.

  • Winslow, Forbes, 1810-1874.
Date:
1868
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    nutrition—Morbid phenomena of circulation, respiration, and generation- Connexion between apoplexy and cardiac disease—Influence of cardiac disease on the psychical functions of the cerebrum—Hallucinations caused by disease of the heart—State of the pulse in incipient insanity—Sympathy between the lungs and brain—Post-mortem examination of the lungs of the insane—Exaltation and impairment of the reproductive organs, 466—474 CHAPTER XXV. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PATHOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, AND PROPHYLAXIS. ■ Obscurity of the pathology of the brain—Opinions of celebrated authorities as to the proximate cause of insanity—Capillary congestion a cause of insanity —Apparently normal condition of the brain often observed after death from acute insanity—Disordered condition of the psychical co-ordinating principle a cause of insanity—Pathological phenomena of general paralysis—Softening of the brain and hemiplegia—Idiopathic ramollissement of the brain—In- fluence of deposits in the arteries upon the circulation—Diseased arteries a cause of apoplexy—Pathology of epilepsy—Pathology of progressive loco- motor ataxy—Pathology of glosso-laryngeal paralysis, . . 475—487 CHAPTER XXVI. GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF DIAGNOSIS. Diagnosis of insanity—Affections with which insanity is liable to be confounded —Distinction between insanity and delirium—Differential diagnosis between eclampsia, hysteria, and epilepsy—Diagnosis of cerebral congestion—Dis- tinction between insanity and cerebritis—Diagnosis between meningitis and inflammation of the substance of the brain—Anaisthesia preceding cerebro- spinal disease—Incipient symptoms of general paralysis—Diagnosis between general paralysis and wasting palsy—Diagnosis of softening of the brain- Premonitory symptoms of acute and chronic softening—Cerebral abscesses and tumours—Importance of knowing the antecedents of patients—Diagnosis of cerebral cephalalgia—Importance of cephalalgia in a diagnostic point of view—Neuralgic and rheumatic cephalalgia—Nervous headache and cephalal- gia symptomatic of tumours of the brain—Diagnosis between cerebral and idiopathic sickness of the stomach-Use of ophthalmoscope in diagnosis of cerebral disease, 488 _5Q4 CHAPTER XXVII. GENERAL TREATMENT OF PRINCIPLES AND PREVENTION. Treatment of incipient insanity-Duties of the physician-Depletion in in- sanity, its use and abuse—Caution to be exercised in the exhibition of pur- gatives-Use of hellebore by the ancients for the cure of insanity-The use Of prolonged hot baths in the treatment of acute mania-Value of opium in the treatment of incipient insanity-The beneficial result of sedatives in cases