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Page 228 - Jurisprudence, to be filled if possible by teachers who have studied both law and medicine ; attendance upon one full course of lectures from •whom shall be deemed necessary before the medical degree is conferred. "Resolved, That while this Association regrets that the Association of Superintendents of American Asylums for the Insane has not yet thought fit to unite itself more closely with the representative body of American physicians, it still is of opinion that such union is for their mutual...
Page 152 - In one of the cells for the women, the dimensions of which were eight feet by four, and in which there was no table and only two wooden seats, we found three females confined.
Page 223 - It has always been the expressed conviction of the writer, that medic.il men are no better judges of the existence of mental alienation, than well-informed and discriminating individuals not of the profession. ^The only advantage, at least, which they can be presumed to have, is from the constant habits of observation and discrimination, which the practical exercise of their profession requires. Yet, for no other reason than that they belong to the medical profession, inferior men, whose judgments...
Page 97 - In our opinion, the probability is against this supposition, notwithstanding the numerous instances in which these organs are found to be diseased in persons dying insane. But there can be no doubt that uterine disorders constitute one of the most frequent remote causes of Insanity with which we are acquainted. If, therefore, the physician can ascertain that his patient has suffered, or is suffering from gastric, hepatic, intestinal, or uterine disorder, he will have discovered a wellknown and frequent...
Page 86 - In order that the comparison of the occurring cases be a strictly accurate one," observes Dr Thurman, the proportions of the two sexes at the several ages attacked with Insanity, for the first time, should be compared with the proportions in which the two sexes at the same ages exist in the community in which such cases occur. The nearest approximation to this method which we have the means of employing is...
Page 68 - ... state of unequal excitement or depression. In simple congestion of the organs, ' • Natural contractility and sensibility are lowered; but pain, spasm, and morbid sympathies are often excited, although in a manner much less distinct and constant than in inflammation or determination of blood. Thus, congestion of the liver IS sometimes accompanied by pain or tenderness ; sometimes it is without either. Congestion of the stomach sometimes causes gastralgia, nausea, and vomiting, with altered appetite...
Page 85 - ... much higher, than that of women ; and as we know that the proportion of men in the general population, particularly at those ages when insanity most usually occurs, is decidedly less than that of women, we can have no grounds for doubting that men are actually more liable to disorders of the mind than women.
Page 81 - Homoeopathists, the St. John Longs of rubbing celebrity, and the Campbells of celestial-bed notoriety — fix her attention. At such medical bagnios there is something promising gratification as well as excitement, and at such places hysterical as well as hypochondriacal patients ' most do congregate,' " OF THE PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT OF HYSTERIA.
Page 103 - every woman is at heart a rake,' he will nevertheless acknowledge that religious and moral principles alone give strength to the female mind; and...
Page 122 - When speaking of the physical changes which the uterine system undergoes in consequence of impregnation, it was remarked that the nerves distributed to the organ and its appendages were augmented in size and number, and having their sensibility exalted, diffused throughout the system generally an increase of nervous irritability, which, affecting both mind and body, displays itself under a great variety of forms and circumstances, rendering the female much more excitable and more easily affected...