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Gooch on Some of the Most Important Diseases Peculiar to Women, With Other Papers. Prefatory Essay by R. Ferguson
Robert Gooch
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-20.
ISBN 9781150554544
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Original Publisher: The New Sydenham Society Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THOUGHTS ON INSANITY AS AN OBJECT OP MORAL SCIENCE. It is a popular belief that insanity is a disease not in our physical but our moral constitution. This is not a speculation merely, but leads to various practical conclusions: that it is a subject rather for metaphysical than for medical inquiry; that a physician is requisite for a madhouse only as he is for a school or a prison; that the true theory of these mysterious diseases will be found in some extraordinary obliquities of thought, the true cure in some moral regimen, some training system for the weak or crooked faculties of the understanding. There are many diseases in which some of the faculties of the mind in a certain degree deviate from their natural state : such are the incubus or nightmare; severe and habitual indigestion, so often attended by lassitude of mind and depression of spirits ; the hypo- chondriasis of liver disease; the strange and different forms of hysteria ; and lastly, but most remarkably, fever attended by delirium; no one supposes these to be moral diseases; no doubt is entertained that the mind is affected by disease of the body; the mental symptoms are universally considered as the natural effects and signs of disturbance in the brain; a man of plain sense, therefore, familiarly acquainted with these facts, would naturally look upon insanity in the same light, unless some solid reasons can be given him to the contrary; where are such reasons to be found ? I. One cause of the belief that insanity is a moral disease is, that it is often produced by passions or efforts of mi
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