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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...and horror act, moreover, variously, either exciting or paralysing, according to the greatness of the danger, and according to the individuality of the persons affected by them. Indignation, which has not been mentioned above ( 44), deserves particular notice; it is an oppressive, very mixed feeling, which manifests a peculiarly undermining effect on the whole organism. Vexation, mortification, contempt, selfrespect, and an enduring violently-suppressed reaction have their share in this emotion. Its effects on the body are chiefly vertigo, nausea, and precordial anguish; the psychical reflex action is extremely dangerous, and happy is it for any one who can console himself with facit indignatio versum. The effects of melancholy on the body are most completely represented in what we call home-sickness (nostalgia); a disease which has been unnecessarily classed among the proper psycopathies, since it has no other specific pathognomonic signs except that of a heavily oppressed spirit, with the influence of this on the body, and exists without alienation of the personality.3 It can only pass into insanity when in its higher degree, and after a long duration, and then it represents a melancholy with a fixed idea of domestic happiness (that is, with a special cause). An autopsy generally exhibits the brain and lungs overcharged with blood, the former indurated, and its membranes in an inflamed state, the heart hypertrophied, the stomach contracted; appearances which are also found on the post-mortem examination of other persons who have died of grief. A similar condition in seamen is called by the English calenture. As a special physical effect of excessive grief, arises that well-known phenomenon where the hair, more or less rapidly, nay, sudd...

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