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... passions . - Vital forces often greatly exalted . - Physical and moral sensibility modified or changed . - Divisions of Insanity into lypemania , etc .— ( Remarks upon . ) — CAUSES OF INSANITY . - Climates , seasons , age , sex ...
... passions . - Vital forces often greatly exalted . - Physical and moral sensibility modified or changed . - Divisions of Insanity into lypemania , etc .— ( Remarks upon . ) — CAUSES OF INSANITY . - Climates , seasons , age , sex ...
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... passions on the mind . - CAUSES OF LYPEMANIA . - Seasons and climates . - Spring and summer produce the greatest number of lypemaniacs . - TABLE ILLUSTRATIVE.— Spring most favorable to the cure of lypemania . - Age . - Childhood ...
... passions on the mind . - CAUSES OF LYPEMANIA . - Seasons and climates . - Spring and summer produce the greatest number of lypemaniacs . - TABLE ILLUSTRATIVE.— Spring most favorable to the cure of lypemania . - Age . - Childhood ...
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... passions , -febrile delirium and mania , ―hypochondria and lypema- nia . - SUICIDE PROVOKED BY THE PASSIONS . - When strongly excited , always pro- duce disturbance in the organism or understanding of man . - Acute and chronic ...
... passions , -febrile delirium and mania , ―hypochondria and lypema- nia . - SUICIDE PROVOKED BY THE PASSIONS . - When strongly excited , always pro- duce disturbance in the organism or understanding of man . - Acute and chronic ...
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... passions . - Vital forces often greatly exalted . - Physical and moral sensibility modified or changed . — Divisions of Insanity into lypemania , etc .— ( Remarks upon . ) Causes of Insanity . - Climates , seasons , age , sex ...
... passions . - Vital forces often greatly exalted . - Physical and moral sensibility modified or changed . — Divisions of Insanity into lypemania , etc .— ( Remarks upon . ) Causes of Insanity . - Climates , seasons , age , sex ...
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... passions which it expresses . An asylum of this character is not exempt from crime . They denounce , ca- lumniate , conspire . They give themselves up to brutish libertinism ; ravish , rob , assassinate . The son curses his father , the ...
... passions which it expresses . An asylum of this character is not exempt from crime . They denounce , ca- lumniate , conspire . They give themselves up to brutish libertinism ; ravish , rob , assassinate . The son curses his father , the ...
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accustomed affections affusions agitation appear attack attention becomes believe Bicêtre body brain causes cease cerebral Charenton chestnut color chronic cold committed confinement consequence constipation convulsions cranium cretins cure death delirium dementia desire destroy disease disorder disposition drinks emaciated employed epilepsy epileptic erotomania excitement exercise eyes fear feeble fever forms of insanity frequent friends frightful furious fury habit hallucinations head hemorrhoids Hippocrates hospital husband hypochondria ideas idiocy idiots illusions influence insane insane persons insomnia irritable lesions less lypemania malady mania manifested melancholy membrane meninges menses menstrual menstruation ment mental alienation mind monomania months moral mother nervous observed organs pains paralysis Paris passions patient period physical physician physiognomy Pinel present produce provoked reason regimen remarkable respect Salpêtrière says sensibility sleep sometimes speak suffer suicide suppression symptoms temperament tepid baths terminate tion transverse colon treatment violent walk whilst woman women young
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