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The Morisonian Lectures on Insanity for 1873

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

David Skae*
Affiliation:
Royal Edinburgh Asylum, &c., &c
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All the forms of insanity we have hitherto been considering have been more or less connected with the sexual organs or sexual functions and conditions, with the exception of the first and last—the epileptic and phthisical insanity. The forms which follow are mostly connected with disease of the body, affecting the brain sympathetically, or disease of the brain acting on its functions directly.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1874

References

A characteristic and most interesting case of “Traumatic Insanity cured by Trephining,” is recorded by Dr. C. Holland Skae, in the “Jour. Ment. Soi.,” for Jan., 1874.>>Google Scholar

The portion of these lectures finished by Dr. Skae ends here.>>Google Scholar

“Jour. Ment. Soi.,” July, 1870.>>Google Scholar

(“Syd. So. Trans.,” Vol. ii, p. 128.)>>Google Scholar

Trousseau, “New Syden. So. Trans.,” Vol. iv., p. 384.>>Google Scholar

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