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Excerpt from: 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.... | Read Full Text |
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Title: | Materialism In Its Relations To The Causes, Conditions, And Treatment Of Insanity | |
Creator: | H.B. Wilbur (author) | |
Date: | January 1872 | |
Format: | Article | |
Publication: | The Journal of Psychological Medicine | |
Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
Location: | vol.6, no.1, pp.29-61 | |
Keywords: | Amariah Brigham; Asylums; Cognitive Disability; Doctors; Health & Medicine; Hervey B. Wilbur; Idiocy; Insanity; Institutions; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Moral Treatment; New York; New York State Asylum For Idiots; New York State Lunatic Asylum; Professional Associations; Psychiatric Disability; Statistics | |
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