Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind / Benjamin Rush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rush, Benjamin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages)

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Other Title:

Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Grigg, 1830.

Summary:

Benjamin Rush compiles his observations of many years, drawn from his own study and that of others, outlining one of the first descriptions and treatments for psychiatric disorders in American medicine. He addresses the proximate causes, forms, and symptoms of various forms of mental illness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Of the faculties and operations of the mind, and on the proximate cause of intellectual derangement

Of its remote, exciting, and predisposing causes

Of partial intellectual derangement, and particularly of hypochondriasis, or tristimania

Of the remedies for hypochondriasis or tristimania

Of amenomania, or partial intellectual derangement accompanied with pleasure, or not accompanied with distress

Of general intellectual derangement

Of the symptoms of mania

Of the different Forms of mania

Of the influence of the moon on mania

Of the remedies for mania

Of manicula

Of manalgia

Of the remedies for manalgia

Of the means of improving the condition of mad people

Signs of a favourable and unfavourable issue of all the forms of intellectual derangement

Usual modes of death from them

Of demence, or dissociation

Of derangement in the will

Of derangement in the principle of faith, or the believing faculty

Of derangement of the memory ; Of the remedies for it

Of fatuity

Of dreaming, incubus, or night mare, andsSomnambulism

Of illusions

Of reverie, or absence of mind

Of derangement of the passions

Of love

Of grief

Of fear

Of anger

Of the morbid effects of envy, malice, and hatred

Of the torpor of the passions

Of the morbid state of the sexual appetite

Of the derangement in the moral faculties.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (John Grigg, viewed June 2, 2023).