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Materialism In Its Relations To The Causes, Conditions, And Treatment Of Insanity
Running through these extracts, it will be observed, the thread of argument is something like this: Inasmuch as insanity is a physical disease, of which mental derangement is only a symptom, the cause or influence determining it must be a physical one; the ultimate pathological seat must be in the encephalon; the means of cure and hope of relief must lie in remedial agencies based upon such pathology, recourse being had occasionally to the faint, indirect, and strictly reflex influences, of a moral nature....