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Does Mania include two distinct varieties of Insanity, and should it be Sub-divided?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

George M. Robertson
George M. Robertson*
Affiliation:
Royal Asylum, Morningside, Edinburgh
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The first difficulty one meets with in deciding these points is in knowing exactly what is meant by mania. Pinel's definition of mania was insanity, marked “by a strong nervous excitement” of the mind and body, “accompanied by lesions of one or more of the functions of the understanding.” Melancholia was distinguished from it, by there being “no propensity to acts of violence,” and by the insanity being “exclusively upon one subject.”

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 36 , Issue 154 , July 1890 , pp. 338 - 347
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1890 

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