Observations on mental derangement : being an application of the principles of phrenology to the elucidation of the causes, symptoms, nature, and treatment of insanity / by Andrew Combe, M. D.

Combe, Andrew, 1797-1847.

Date:: 1831

Credit: Observations on mental derangement : being an application of the principles of phrenology to the elucidation of the causes, symptoms, nature, and treatment of insanity / by Andrew Combe, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$INDEX. A. Db, of Cupar, case of, 197, 205. Abercrombie on the pathology of the brain, 130, 311, 334, 337. Acquisitiveness, organ ot\ its over-excitement a cause of insanity, 176. Symptoms referrible to, 249. Active employment of the brain, beneficial effects of, 118. Adhesiveness, organ of, its irritation a cause of insanity, IC7. Symptoms referrible to, 248. Air, pure, necessary to the health of the brain, 123, 377. Amativeness, diseases and insanity from abuses of, 161. Symp- toms referrible to, 248. Amusements of the insane, 358. Animals, their faculties and brains compared with those of man, 11, 12, , their nerves, 31, , their organs of smell, 36 ; of hearing, 38, 39; of taste, 40 ; and of sight, 42, 44. Their brains generally smaller than that of man, 51. Apoplexy, effect of, on the brain, 134, 276. Asthenic insanity, 313. Its cure, 338. Auditory nerve, 33. Its size proportional to the energy of its function, 39. Auricle, relation of, to function, 38. Wanting in some animals, ib. Bell, IMr Charles, his discovery of nerves of motion, sensation, and respiration, 4. Birds, muscular motion of, on what depending, 27. Their sense of taste, 41. of prey, their large optic nerves and acute vision, 44. Blood, arterial, the nourishing principle of the body, 113. A due supply of it necessary to the health of the brain, 123. Blond-letting in insanity, 326-9. Blows on the head, effects of on the brain, 132.$