Essays on insanity, hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / by John Reid, M.D.

  • Reid, John, 1776-1822.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Essays on insanity, hypochondriasis, and other nervous affections / by John Reid, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    cases where phrenzy takes place, it may arise from a similar cause. This analogy might be corroborated by other maladies; hysteria for instance, which, although it is most apt to occur in relaxed con- stitutions, and although its violent attacks are generally occasioned by circumstances immediately preceding them that weaken or exhaust, often exhibits symptoms of morbid energy, much greater than the patient would have been capable of dis- playing in the state of her most perfect health and vigour. These fugitive and abrupt exhibitions of morbid energy are very far from indi- cating genuine strength, which shews it- self only in a capacity for regular and continued action. The human machinery is of so complicated a structure, and its motions, although various, are all so connected and dependent upon each other, that a derangement in one part.