An index of diseases and their treatment / by Thomas Hawkes Tanner.

  • Thomas Hawkes Tanner
Date:
1883
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    Want of sleep. Aversion to food. Incontinence of urine.—Recovery „ preceded by sleep, desire for food, witli a gradual cessation of agitation i;nd delirium. ... (2) Moiwmania (Mii'os, alone ; ixalvonai, to be furious,—irra- tionality on one subject only), or: jmrtial i^-swimV//••—That form in which the understanding is deranged to a certain degree, or is under the influence of some one particular delusion. Mind, vigorous ; ideas, li.'W, eironeoup, fixed, not under control. Manner, in accordance with predominant idea. A ialse principle seized upon, which is pur- y Hied logically, and from which legitimate consequences are deduced. Thus, a monomaniac insists that his body is made of glass; and im- pressed with this idea he takes care to avoid rough handling, lest he should be broken. Or, in belief that he is a divine instrument ot vengeance, he may commit murder. Aside from his partial delirium, he will reason and act like other men; so that the insanity is often difficult of detection. There are particular forms of monomania :—Melancholia (MAa?, black; xo^'iJjile). or If/pemaiua [Ainrr], sadness; /.Lavla), is charac- terized by fear, moroscness, and great despondency ; an unwillingness to move, talk, or take food, &c.—In autophonomania {kvTO(pbvoi, a self-murderer) there is a desire for suicide ; to effect which, melan- cholies will take most extraordinary steps.—In undrophonomania (Aprjp, a man ; (povdiui, to kill) there is an uncontrollable tendency to murder.—I'ljromania livp, fire) is marked by a propensity to set buildings on 'fire.—An irresi.stible dusire to steal is known as kleptomania {KUiTTw, to steal).—In erolomania'^<]pu><s, love) amatory delusions rule, just as religious delusions predominate iiW/(eow«)ti« (Geos, God), or religious melancholy. Erotomania may be an ex- cessive degree of a chaste and honourable allcction ; or it may be combined with niimpkomania (NiV^i?, the nymjiha) in^ women, or with sati/ria.'iis (Sarupoj, a satyr) in men. In all forms of erotomania there is a great mental and bodily depression; women suftcr most frequentlv, especially the single ; and the phenomena arc often con- nected with some disease of sexual organs. (.3) Dementia {Be, priv. ; jiiens, tlic mind), incoherence:—Thai condition in which weakness of intellect, induced by accident or age, is the prominent I'eature. Mind, altogether feeble ideas confused,^ var'ue, wandering; memory much impaired. Patients ignorant of time, place, cpiantity, property, &c. : forget immediately what they have just seen or heard. Manners undecided, childish, and silly. The demented have neither allbctions nor aversions, nor care for anything. I'aroxysms of restlessness and excitement. Little or no control over bladder and rectum, in last stage, complete paralysis. Aculc derncn'ia sometimes comes on suddenly in tlie young from shock or anxiety, &o. Patient lies in bed, takes no noliee, refuses food, passes excretions under hini. Mental faculties a]iparently iu abeyance. Pupils largo. i\Iay be cured by feeding and moral influence. (4) Idio'u {Tdiola, a simpleton):—Characterized by partial or complete absence of intellect, owing to congenital imperfection