A treatise on madness / By William Battie.

  • Battie, William, 1704-1776.
Date:
1758
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    . [53] Epileply, Child-birth, and the like muicular dif- orders; and that the tumultuous and viiibly ipaf- inodic pallions of joy and anger are all at lead: for a time maniacal. But thefe paffions con- dringe the mufcles of the head and neck, and therefore like a ligature force the blood that was defcending in the jugular veins back upon the minuted veflels of the brain. Spafm therefore, when it is productive of tu mors by Fluxion or of fudden dideniions in the veflels contiguous to the nervous fubdance, as alfo fpafmodic padions fuch as joy and anger are to be reckoned amongd the remoter caufes of Mad- nefs. Not but that the fame mufcular conduc tion is often excited by the application of feveral external objects; which objedts are therefore to be added to the fame clafs. . For belides the ma ny well atteded cafes of poiibns or medicines, which as foon as fwallowed convulfe the body and intoxicate the underdanding, fuch as Hem- loc, and the root lately midaken for Gentian, fuch as Opium when adminidered to fome par ticular patients, &c. The many bottle-com panions whofe pulfes beat high and quick, whofe faces are duihed with blood in the fame manner as if they were drangled, who are fird wild and then dupid, who drink till they fee double, and then drink on till they cannot fee at all, as well