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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Original Publisher: Churchill Subjects: Brain Mental diseases Insanity (Law) Medicine Nervous system Insanity Mental illness Medical / Neurology Medical / Neuroscience Medical / Psychiatry / General Psychology / Mental Illness Psychology / Psychopathology / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ON THE OBSCURE DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND DISORDERS OF THE MIND. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. When considering the treatment of diseases of vital structures, the practical significance of the well-known apophthegm of Hippocrates, o K xai$f ot)f, should never be forgotten, The occasion fleeting! Let this profoundly wise axiom te ever present to the mind and engraven in imperishable characters upon the memory; for if these fleeting moments of incalculable value are trifled with, and serious morbid states of brain are overlooked, or, if recognised, not immediately subjected to proper treatment, chronic, irreparable; and incurable organic alterations in the material instrument of thought may be the result, succeeded, when it is too late to remedy the mischief, by the bitterness of self-accusation and unceasing lamentations of those who ought to have been the first to observe and attack the fatal lesion. How often does the physician witness the melancholy consequences to health of body and mind, life and reason, of a neglect of well-marked premonitory symptoms of cerebral disease and mental disorder. It is frequently his painful duty to hear relatives and friends reproach themselves, when the time for action has passed away, for closing their eyes to long-existing evidence of serious disease of the brain. Th...

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