Bibliotheque du Medicin Practicien.
Tome neuvième, traité de maladies du
cerveau, maladies mentales, maladies
nerveuses, 534.
Blisters, mercurial, in encephalitis, 169.
Blood, the ostensible site of the vital
principle, 75.
Bloodletting, dangerous, if too frequent
in general palsy of the insane, 346.
Blood, on, in the neuroses, by Dr.
Michea, 118.
fibrine, proportion of, in the
neuroses, 122.
albumen, proportion of, 122.
serum, proportion of, 122.
of the insane, Dr. Erlenmeyer,
on the, 139.
pressure on a nerve, effects of,
according to Bichat, 91.
according to Swan, 91.
and innervation, mutual relation
of, 93.
Bloomingdale Asylum, New York, his-
tory and statistics of, 189.
Blumenbach, his nisus formativus, 73.
Boismont de Brierre, on the classifica-
tion of mental diseases, 551.
Books received, 188, 348, 635.
Bory de St. Vincent, singular observa-
tions on vegeto-animal forms, 71.
Brain, sole centre of human nervous
system, 302.
softening of, by Dr. Winslow,
monograph on, terminating in im-
pairment of mind.
decrease of, in the insane, 159.
hæmorrhage and softening of, de-
pendent on congestion, 159.
- overwrought, illustrations of, cau-
tion regarding, 289.
injurious effects of tight bandages
on its functions, 37, 38.
irritation of, in children, 43.
symptoms of, 43.
treatment of, 43.
phantoms of, described and ana-
lized, 273-275.
Abercrombie on, 275.
Brougham, Lord, on partial insanity,
Buli of Innocent VIII. against demon
worshippers, 229.
Burns, peculiarities of, 280.
theory of the poetic temperament
of, 281.
Bush, Dr., on juvenile delinquency, and
degeneration in upper classes of so-
ciety, 428.
Byron, traits of his impetuous character,
279
Cairo, Grand, barbarous treatment of
lunatics at, 243, 244.
Calmeil on mental epidemics, 221.
History of dæmonomania,chorea,
monomania religiosa, 135.
Cambrai, nuns of, demonopathy among,
Camisole, sufficient in general as a
means of restraint, 192.
Canada, Upper and Lower, great dispro-
portion between idiots and insane, 142.
Cannabis Indica, action of, 171.
Cannibalism of sorcerers, theory of its
origin, 228.
Caribbees, alter the form of the cranium
by pressure, 34.
Carlini, anecdote of, 289.
Carotids, compression of, in insanity,144.
Carus, Dr., on the pantheistical theory
of life, 68.
Cases illustrative of transient insanity,
illustrating the effects of restraint,
260, 261.
of Tartini, 268.
of Tasso, 267.
of Wollaston, by Dr. Holland, 270.
Causes of death, table of, 220.
Catheterism, esophageal, of insane, 156.
Cephalea, intermittent, dependent on
cerebral effusion, 170.
Cerebral diseases of children, 41.
affections in children, obscure
character of, 41.
affections often latent, 41.
affections of infancy and child-
hood, by Dr. Duke, 41.
congestions, chemical indica-
tions of, from blood, 122.
Changes during periods of adolescence
in males and females, 5.
Characteristics and pathology of in-
sanity 539.
Chemistry, human, pathological, and
comparative, discordance between,124.
Cherokees, insanity among, 143.
Cheromania, what, 271.
illustration of, 520, 521.
-phenomena of, totally irrespec-
tive of constitutional disturbance, 274.
Cheyne, Dr., of Dublin, his description
of acute hydrocephalus, 47.
Children, cerebal diseases of, 41.
Chloroform in tetanus, 168.
fractional doses of, 347.
Cholera, fear of, cause of insanity, 214.
Chorea in scrofulous subjects, 171.
Chronic hydrocephalus, 56.
Circulation, obstructed, effects on sensa.
tion, 91.
Classes, upper, of society, juvenile de-
linquency, and degeneration in, by
Dr. Bush, 428.
Classification of mental diseases accord-
ing to Brierre de Boismont, 551.
Clergymen, whether catholics or protes-
tants, to be attached to every lunatic
asylum in Ireland, 397.
of Cupar, singular divining anec-
dote of, 522.
Climateric, grand, 78.
Cold bathing and urtication successfully
employed in palsy, 168.
Cold affusion, dangerous consequences
from, 165.
Coleridge, his theory of life, 58.
's early life disclosed his meta-
physical tendencies, 66.
influence of German literature
upon his mind, 66.
- peculiar character of his meta-
physical philosophy, 6.
his theory truly pantheistical,
argues physical properties of
matter as essentially vital, 68.
opposes idea of life, considered
as the mere result of organization, 69.
Commissions in lunacy, 468.
Compression of skull by bandages pro-
duces idiotism, according to M.
Virey, 34.
Condition, married, strictly consonant
with nature, 6.
Confidence, influence on the mind, 94.
Confinement, solitary, effect of, on the
mind, by Dr. Winslow, 115.
injurious to the mind,
without inducing insanity, 115.
Congestion of brain rare in early life, 42.
symptoms of, 42.
rapidity of their pro-
Congestion, cerebral, its connexion with
hæmorrhage and softening of the
brain, 159.
general indications of cerebral,
corresponding with chemical analysis
of the blood, 122.
Congress of science in Italy, subjects
proposed at, 136.
Consciousness, double case of, 528.
connected with hysteria, 456.
Connexion between physiology, psycho-
logy, natural theology, and other
sciences, 309.
Conolly, on accommodation required for
lunatics capable of paying a small
sum, 394.
Conolly, uncompromising advocate for
non-restraint system, 254.
Constantinople, description of lunatic
asylum at, 244.
Convictions, intuitive, proof of, 312.
Convulsions in children, 44.
Copland, Dr. James, on the young
sleeping with the aged as a cause of
depressed vitality, 74.
Cornwall, divining rod in, 515.
Correspondence from Paris, 338–348.
Cranium, deformed and imperfect in-
tellect, 36.
Crania, infantile, on deformity of, 30.
modified forms of, from tight
bandaging, illustrated by plates, 32,
33, 39.
Criminal acts, prima facie insane, 117.
illustrated by analogy, 117.
Cowper, his religious melancholy, 284.
Cure, period of life at which most com-
mon, 219.
time required for, in insanity, erro-
neous notion of the public, 218.
time required for in, insanity, 218.
D'Alembert, anecdote of, on his death
bed, 89.
Dangerous influence of imagination on
reason, Hume on, 61.
Davy, Dr. John, account of lunatic
asylum at Constantinople, 244.
Death, allegorical conversation with, 89.
or dying, difference between, and
going to sleep, 79.
accidental, 78.
apparent, 162.
bed scenes portrayed, 81.
bed interview of Stella with Dean
Swift, 363.
fetch, story of, 521.
reasons for intimating to patient, 87.
resuscitation from, 79.
scene on the battle field, 82.
phenomena of, 76.
successive, of the different ages in
individuals, 77.
of St. Laurence Justinian, 82.
lucid interval before, 83.
peculiarities of, when brain dies
first, 84.
time of, often foreseen and pre-
pared for, 85.
physical description of, leading
features of, 85.
reflections on, what is the precise
duty of the physician before the closing
scene, 88.
should it be intimated to the pa-
tient? 86.
wary, anecdote of rational old lady
thereon, 87.
why it is expedient to interdict the
idea of, from the sick chamber, 86.
of Dr. Prichard, 188.
Decrease of brain in insanity, 159.
Definitions, preliminary, not essential,
Whewell on, 68.
Deformity of infantile crania, 30.
- crania, relative proportion
in the sexes, 35.
Delany, Dr., account of confirmed ma-
niacal state of Dean Swift, 367.
Delaye, Dr., on the peaked heads of the
natives of Toulouse, 36.
Delirium, acute, of the insane, 552.
electrical, theory of, by Leo-
tremens, tabular view of cases
in Bloomingdale Asylum, 193.
to, 193.
of, 193.
of patients, 194.
all cases, table of
results of first admission, 194.
fatal cases, tables of
cases of, table of ages
crises in, 195.
malady described, 195-197.
Demon worshippers, bull of Innocent
VIII. against, 229.
Demonomania, prevalent in fifteenth cen-
tury, history of-horrors of, glanced
at, 237.
historical and patholo-
gical account of, 134.
Description of spermatoza, 17.
Difficulties, pecuniary, potent cause of
insanity, 211.
Disease, physical expression of, 2, 3.
sleeplessness in, 373.
influence on temper, 3.
Diseases, mental, classification of, ac-
cording to Brierre de Boismont,
mental, study of, 174, 495.
Divining rod in Cornwall, 515.
Domestic troubles, causes of insanity,
Doses, fractional, of chloroform, 347.
Droin, Marie Madeline, medico-legal
inquiry into state of her mind, 157.
Dryden's opinion of Swift, 351.
Dudley, Lord, traits of his character,280.
Duke, Dr., on the cerebral affections of
infancy and childhood, 41.
Dying, phantasies of the, not to be
slighted, 82.
Dyspepsia, a cause of insanity, 210.
Earle, Dr., history of Bloomingdale
Asylum, New York, 189.
M. J. W., new exposition of func-
tions of nerves, 302.
Eclampsia, cured by stramonium, 172.
Education, errors in, productive of in-
sanity, 214.
Edilin, Dr., of the Sorbonne, first open
preacher against sorcery, 228.
his punishment, 228.
Ehrenberg, denies any unequivocal in-
stance of spontaneous generation, 72.
Electro-biology, Smee on, 292.
Emissions, solitary, various conditions
under which they occur, 21.
Emotional, state of the mind, during
intellectual exertion, 286.
Employment, want of, cause of insanity,
Engelken, water cure and electricity re-
commended by, in insanity, 137.
Encephalitis, treated by mercurial blis-
ters, 170.
Epidemics, mental, by Dr. Calmeil,
Hydrocephalus, acute, prophylaxis in,55. | Injuries, cases of insanity, arising from,
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