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Clinical Observations on the Blood of the Insane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

S. Rutherford Macphail*
Affiliation:
Garlands Asylum, Carlisle; being the Essay to which the prize of £10 10s., together with the bronze medal of the Association, was awarded in 1884

Extract

The older writers on Insanity including Pinel, and Esquirol, believed that functional disturbances of the higher nervous centres were the chief factors in producing mental disease. Whether this is the case or not, and whether functional disease of the brain may exist without appreciable change of structure, there can be no question that the quantity and quality of the blood circulating through the higher nervous centres affect their functions in an important manner.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1884 

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* “Psychological Medicine,” page 586.Google Scholar

“Pathology of Mind,” page 193.Google Scholar

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