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Rug en langs de nepen verbleekt. Rugeinden en hoekjes licht gestoten. Uit het bezit van en met een ex libris en naamstempel van 'The Royal Scottish National Institution Lambert'. Bladzijden gaaf, schoon en egaal licht verkleurd. Een stevig gebonden aantrekkelijk exemplaar.
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In dit werk biedt Macpherson een systematische inleiding tot de psychiatrie aan het eind van de 19e eeuw. Bijzonder aandacht gaat uit naar erfelijkheid, degeneratie, toxische invloeden, neuronentheorie en classificatie van krankzinnigheid.

Inhoudsopgave (volledig):
PART I—INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I. Morbid Heredity ……………………………………………… 3
CHAPTER II. The Evolution of Insanity ………………………………… 21
CHAPTER III. Determining Causes of Insanity ………………………… 38
CHAPTER IV. Determining Causes of Insanity (continued) ………… 56

PART II—PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL
CHAPTER V. On some Physiological and Histological
  Aspects of the Nervous System …………………………………… 79
CHAPTER VI. On some Psychological Considerations ………………… 97
CHAPTER VII. Pathological Symptomatology—
  I. Hereditary Degeneration ………………………………………… 124
CHAPTER VIII. Pathological Symptomatology (continued)—
  II. Cerebral Dissociation ………………………………………… 139

PART III—CLINICAL SYMPTOMATOLOGY
CHAPTER IX. Idiopathic Mental Affections ……………………………… 169
  Mania ………………………………………………………………… 172
CHAPTER X. Idiopathic Mental Affections (continued)—
  Melancholia and Circular Insanity ……………………………… 189
CHAPTER XI. Idiopathic Mental Affections (continued)—
  Progressive Systematised Insanity (Paranoia)—
  Pathology and Morbid Histology of the Idiopathic
  Insanities …………………………………………………………… 211
CHAPTER XII. Confusional Insanity. Toxic Insanity—
  I. Forms caused by Physical Exhaustion, Nervous Shock,
   or Malnutrition:
   (a) Delirium of Collapse
   (b) Acute Primary Mental Confusion
   (c) Stupor ………………………………………………………… 227
  II. Forms resulting from Auto-Intoxication, or from
   Microbic Toxins:
   (a) Puerperal and other Insanities of Infective Origin
   (b) Acute Delirious Mania ……………………………………… 240
CHAPTER XIII. Confusional Insanity. Toxic Insanity (continued)—
  II. (continued):
   (c) General Paralysis—
    Pathology and Morbid Histology of Puerperal
    Insanity, Acute Delirious Mania, and General
    Paralysis ………………………………………………………… 245
CHAPTER XIV. Confusional Insanity. Toxic Insanity (continued)—
  II. (continued):
   (d) Cretinism
   (e) Myxoedema …………………………………………………… 269
  III. Forms resulting from Voluntary Intoxication ……………… 280
CHAPTER XV. Degenerative Insanities—
  Epileptic Insanity—
   Pathology and Morbid Histology ……………………………… 291
CHAPTER XVI. Insanities of the Neuroses—
  Hysteria—Neurasthenia—Hypochondriasis …………………… 303
CHAPTER XVII. Insanities of Brain Disease—
  Apoplectic Insanity—Senile Insanity—
  Pathology and Morbid Histology ……………………………… 319
CHAPTER XVIII. Classification …………………………………………… 337
CHAPTER XIX. Treatment ………………………………………………… 348
Index ……………………………………………………………………… 377
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Zoekwoorden:
psychiatrie, krankzinnigheid, mentale stoornissen, toxische oorzaken, erfelijkheid, neuronentheorie, degeneratie, symptomatologie, 19e-eeuwse neurologie, John Macpherson