ISBN: 1150926740

[EAN: 9781150926747], Neubuch, RICHARD ROBERT MADDEN,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can downl… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781150926747], Neubuch, RICHARD ROBERT MADDEN,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 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. 1857 Excerpt: . . . CHAPTER XL MANIACAL EPIDEMICS. LYCANTHROPY, OR WOLF TRANSFORMATION MANIA. The prevalence of particular forms of insanity at particular epochs has been noticed in various countries, and was first treated of scientifically in France by Docteur Calmeil, the very able and enlightened physician. At different periods in the middle ages, we find large masses of people moved at the same time by the same exciting influence, seized by a nervous affection of an epidemic nature, that soon merged into a state of mental exaltation and terminated in monomania, if it were not timely checked. These forms of mental insanity are very apt to assume a religious character. Those which assume that character are classed by Calmeil under the head of Theomania, the opposite of this character under that, of Demonomania, which he divides into two kinds--Demonolatria, devil worship, and Deraonopathy, a belief in possession by evil spirits. De la folie sous le point de vue pathologiijue, philosophiquc et judiciare, and c. Par. L. F. Calmeil, Doct. en Med. de Paris. 8 Par. 2 tomes. It would appear the Demonomania of those afflicted with Lycanthropy partook of the character both of Demonolatria and Demonopathy. In maniacal epidemics we find numbers of people in a particular locality under some prevailing derhglement of the imagination or the passions, or some dominant excitement, or exaggeration of dangers, or desires that overpower judgment. Each form of the disease will have its own prevailing symptoms and manifestations of the ruling passion which is connected with it. Persons labouring under Demonomania have been observed in frequent instances to have been afflicted with spasms, convulsions, hysteria or epilepsy; in some cases opisthotonos to such a degree that the head touched the bac. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., [PU: General Books, LLC]<

ISBN: 1150926740

[EAN: 9781150926747], Neubuch, Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) f.S… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781150926747], Neubuch, Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) f.Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. This item is printed on demand. 140 pages. 0.440, [PU: General Books, LLC]<

ISBN: 1150926740

[EAN: 9781150926747], Neubuch, Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) fro… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781150926747], Neubuch, Paperback. 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 .Shipping may be from our UK, US or Australian warehouse depending on stock availability. This item is printed on demand. 140 pages. 0.440, [PU: General Books, LLC]<