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Physiognomy No. 8: This illustration of acute mania is given more especially to show the hematoma auris in the third month of its appearance.

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Title: A text-book on mental diseases, for the use of students and practitioners of medicine
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Kellogg, Theodore Harvey, 1841-1931. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Psychiatry
Publisher: New York, W. Wood & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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is was~a case of acute mania attributed to religious excitement. The momentary-pose here shown likely corresponded to some passing devout emotion, and contrastedwith his usual maniacal actions. nity the above descriptions and the accompanying photographs mayserve as an introduction to the subject of the physiognomy of In-sanity. Section III.—The Vascular System. The serious disturbances of the vascular system in Insanity areto be viewed in the light of causes, symptoms, or sequels. A weakvascular mechanism predisposes to mental disorder, which in turntends to develop vascular disease, which clinical observation showsto be of unusual frequency among the insane, in whom vasculardegenerations also form permanent sequels, and sometimes leadto a fatal termination. There are congenital defects of the vascular system in states ofarrested development of mind, such as contraction of the cerebralvessels from narrowing of the cranial foramina, anomalies in the 232 TEXT-BOOK ON MENTAL DISEASES.
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Physiognomy No, 8. This illustration of acute mania is given more especially to show the haematoma-auris in the third month of its appearance. It may be compared with haematoma inPhysiognomy No. 6 of this series. structure and distribution of the carotid and vertebral arteries, andin the heart itself patency of the foramen ovale. In cretins, too, with premature synostosis basilaris, there is nar-rowing of the lumen of vertebral and basilar arteries, and greatdilatation of venous and lymphatic vessels. In degenerative insanities there are sometimes native vasculardeficiencies in the calibre or in the coats of vessels, or thin andfeeble cardiac walls. The proportion of deaths from heart disease is greater among theinsane than among the sane, and it varies, according to reports ofhospitals for the insane, from five to fifteen per cent. Out of eleven SOMATIC SYMPTOMATOLOGY. 233 hundred and twenty-two deaths in the Willard State Hospital, heartdisease was the assigned cause in a fraction o

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