A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and Synonyms of the Terms Used in Medical Psychology with the Symptoms, Treatment, and Pathology of Insanity and the Law of Lunacy in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2Daniel Hack Tuke |
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21 Vict action acute affected alcohol alienists aphasia appears associated asylum atrophy attack become bodily brain cause cells cent centres cerebral character chloral chronic colour condition cord delirium delusions dementia depression derangement doses dura mater epilepsy epileptic especially excitement fact fluid form of insanity frequently function hallucinations hospital hypochondriasis hysteria hysterical ideas idiocy idiots imbecility impulse increased influence insanity insomnia irritation lesion less Lunacy lunatic mania marked marriage melan melancholia membrane ment mental disease mental disorder mental symptoms microcephalic mind monomania moral morbid morphia motor movements muscles nerve nervous system neurasthenia nutrition nymphomania observed occur opium organs paralysis patient pauper period person phthisis pia mater poison present produced prognosis pulse pyromania regard result saliva sanity sensations sense sensory sexual sion sleep sphygmographic spinal stage stimulation suffering suicide synonym syphilis term tion tissue treatment usually vessels women
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Page 743 - AB, the person named in the accompanying statement or order, and that the said A. B. is a lunatic [or an idiot, or a person of unsound mind], and a proper person to be taken charge of, and detained under care and treatment, and that I have formed this opinion upon the following grounds, viz : — 1.
Page 732 - ... is deemed to be a lunatic, and is not under proper care and control, or is cruelly treated or neglected by any relative or other person having the care or charge of him, shall, within three days after obtaining such knowledge, give information thereof upon oath to a justice...
Page 892 - Act, then the guardian or committee (if any) of such incapable person, or if there be none, any person appointed by any court or judge...
Page 749 - ... the contract, requires, is, that the act of self-destruction should be the voluntary and wilful act of a man having at the time sufficient powers of mind and reason to understand the physical nature and consequences of such act, and having at the time a purpose and intention to cause his own death by that act...
Page 1013 - The aim of the society is to approach these various problems without prejudice or prepossession of any kind, and in the same spirit of exact and unimpassioned inquiry which has enabled science to solve so many problems, once not less obscure nor less hotly debated.
Page 890 - The insanity of a partner is a ground for the dissolution, of a partnership, because it is immediate incapacity, but it may not in the result prove to be a ground of dissolution, for the partner may recover from his malady. When a partner, therefore, is affected with insanity, the continuing partner may, if he think fit, make...
Page 777 - We learn from experience and observation all that we can know, and we see that madness may subsist in various degrees, sometimes slight, as partaking rather of disposition or humour, which will not incapacitate a man from managing his own affairs, or making a valid contract. It must be something more than this, something which, if there be any test, is held, by the common judgment of mankind, to affect his general fitness to be trusted with the management of himself and his own concerns.
Page 686 - The third sort of dementia is that which is dementia affectatii — viz., drunkenness. This vice doth deprive men of the use of reason, and puts many men into a perfect but temporary frenzy, and therefore, according to some civilians, such a person committing homicide shall not be punished simply for the crime of homicide, but shall suffer...
Page 742 - Duration of existing attack. Supposed cause. Whether subject to epilepsy.
Page 744 - ... not a pauper and not wandering at large, is deemed to be a lunatic and is not under proper care and control, or is cruelly treated or neglected...