Monomania, with an Illustrative Case

A Case of Monomania

A man may receive a blow upon liis lieart or liis imagination as lie may receive an injury to liis brain, wliicli till, if ever, tlie effects have passed away, shall determine an eccentricity of conduct in all after-life, for which he is wholly, or in a considerable degree, irresponsible. Such a man is pro tanto to be pitied, and, if needful, shut up. If his eccentricity be of dangerous tendenc...

A Singular Case of Monomania

become his own. According to Broussais, every man was under the influence of the idee fixe, and, by his first question to the patient, he was invariably determined as to the direction in which it lay. "Are you feverish?" would he say to the sick man who came to consult him. " Very," was most frequently the reply. " Restless, hey??fidgetty at night, hey ??tormented and uneasy, hey ?" To all this...

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