Observations on the deranged manifestations of the mind, or insanity / by J.G. Spurzheim, M.D.

  • Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832.
Date:
1833 [©1833]
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    often satisfied with mere nosographical divisions, ac- cording to the deranged functions of the different parts, and that we have no true and satisfactory pa- thogeny, that is, a doctrine of the nature of diseases, which ought to be founded on the whole of the human frame, and not on the morbid appearances of single parts, which, being affected by the same disease, on account of their different structure and functions, must produce different symptoms. The knowledge of man is divided into that of au- tomatic and animal life. As automatic life is pro- vided with nerves, it is also subjected to nervous complaints, such as dysphagia, cardialgia, dyspepsia, colica, asthma, &c. These disorders, however, do not at all enter into the considerations of this work ; nor shall I speak, with Cullen, Alusgrave, Fr. HofT- man, Tissot, and others, of nervous disease, whenever nerves are affected; for in that acceptation every disease should be called nervous; nor with Whytt, where sensibility is increased, because, according to that definition, palsy should not belong to the ner- vous disorders. Moreover, as the nerves of animal life and the brain are not only in relation to, and