2013, ISBN: 1230235116

[EAN: 9781230235110], Neubuch, [PU: Theclassics.Us, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781230235110], Neubuch, [PU: Theclassics.Us, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: . his mind to a kaleidoscope! There was no want of vivid ideas or capacity to revive, by an effort of the will, past states of consciousness, but the images so reproduced were, to use his own expression, in a confused and entangled condition. In certain states of perturbed and agitated thought, the ideas appear to lose their coherence and connexion, the mental faculties (particularly the memory) becoming quite confused. This often occurs to persons in health who are subject to paroxysms of violent passion and ill-governed emotion. Similar phenomena are observable in cases of insanity. These conditions of mind have been compared to the distorted reflections observed in a troubled piece of water -. les idees se retablissent par le repos et le tranquillite, comme une eau qui cesse d etre agitee, represente des images fdelesr* * Diet, des Scien. Med., come xii. p. 99. The Memory in Paralysis and Cerebral Softening. 307 CHAPTER XV. Chronic Affections of the Memory. Remarkable modifications in tKe operations of the memory are occasionally seen connected with the early symptoms of brain disease, such as recollecting only the christian name of relations and intimate friends, confounding one name with another, being able only to pronounce words of a certain sound, an inability to remember or articulate (arising from paralysis and disease of the brain) particular letters of the alphabet. A patient who had had several paralytic seizures always knew when his attack was approaching by forgetting his own christian name. When asked to sign a letter, he could only write his surname, and occasionally only half of that. A gentleman, subject to severe attacks of epilepsy some days before his attacks, invariably signs half of his name, not being able to.<

2013, ISBN: 1230235116

[EAN: 9781230235110], Neubuch, [PU: Theclassics.Us, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can … Mehr…

[EAN: 9781230235110], Neubuch, [PU: Theclassics.Us, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: . his mind to a kaleidoscope! There was no want of vivid ideas or capacity to revive, by an effort of the will, past states of consciousness, but the images so reproduced were, to use his own expression, in a confused and entangled condition. In certain states of perturbed and agitated thought, the ideas appear to lose their coherence and connexion, the mental faculties (particularly the memory) becoming quite confused. This often occurs to persons in health who are subject to paroxysms of violent passion and ill-governed emotion. Similar phenomena are observable in cases of insanity. These conditions of mind have been compared to the distorted reflections observed in a troubled piece of water -. les idees se retablissent par le repos et le tranquillite, comme une eau qui cesse d etre agitee, represente des images fdelesr* * Diet, des Scien. Med., come xii. p. 99. The Memory in Paralysis and Cerebral Softening. 307 CHAPTER XV. Chronic Affections of the Memory. Remarkable modifications in tKe operations of the memory are occasionally seen connected with the early symptoms of brain disease, such as recollecting only the christian name of relations and intimate friends, confounding one name with another, being able only to pronounce words of a certain sound, an inability to remember or articulate (arising from paralysis and disease of the brain) particular letters of the alphabet. A patient who had had several paralytic seizures always knew when his attack was approaching by forgetting his own christian name. When asked to sign a letter, he could only write his surname, and occasionally only half of that. A gentleman, subject to severe attacks of epilepsy some days before his attacks, invariably signs half of his name, not being able to.<

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