was born may not on that account be unequal to the relations of a much lower social stratum. It is not because a person insists upon degrading or ruining himself that it is justifiable to deprive him of his liberty by treating him as a lunatic. Very little more can be done for those who from childhood have manifested a moral and intellectual imbecility than to place them where they will be properly controlled, kindly treated, and well taken care of; they should certainly not be subjected to the discipline of a stern schoolmaster who expects by severe measures to implant better feelings and to awaken a brighter intelligence in them. God has not given them understanding; and man cannot do it.
Abdominal organs, diseases of, in the
insane, 471.
Abercrombie,
powers, 132.
Abscess of the brain, 280, 449.
Actuation, 191.
Addison, Dr., on the urine of the in-
sane, 401.
Affective life, maniacal perversion of,
366; melancholic perversion of, 366.
Age, influence of, on insanity, 243.
Ague, as a cause of insanity, 267.
Albers, Professor, on cold baths in the
treatment of insanity, 509.
Alcohol, influence of, on the brain, 262,
475; in the treatment of insanity,
511.
Alcoholization, insanity of, 262.
Amenorrhoea, treatment of, in in-
sanity, 514.
Anelectrotonus, 434.
Annelida, nervous system of, 84.
Aphasia, 196-199.
Arachnoid, granulations of, 455;
changes of, in insanity, 455.
Archencephala, 56.
Bayle, on the analogy between drunken-
ness and general paralysis, 416.
Beckham, Dr., case of melancholia in a
boy, 320.
Bell, Sir Charles, on the muscular sense,
202.
Belladonna, influence of, on brain, 263.
Beneke, on mental residua, 39.
Berkeley, Bishop, on vision, 105, 121.
Bernard, on the influence of the cerebro-
spinal system on nutrition, 91.
Bezold, Arnold von, on the electrical
excitation of nerves, 435.
Bichat, on the seat of the passions, 21,
161.
Biography, import of, 8; study of, 29.
Blake, William, hallucinations of, 132,
Blood, vitiation of, 89, 118, 262;
irregular supply of, 258, 441.
Blood-letting, in insanity, 442, 506.
Bosjesman, cerebral convolutions of, 54.
Bouquet de malades, 392.
Braid, on hypnotism, 160, 196.
Brain, embryonic development of, 55,
56; organic sympathies of, 20, 21;
nutritive life of, 22, 23; convolutions
of, 53-55; differences in quality and
capacity of, 255; condition of, in
acute insanity, 395; abscess and
tumour of, 449; injury and disease
of, 450; loss of substance of, 452;
specific gravity of, 460; increase of
connective tissue of, 462; defective
development of, 250.
Bridgman, Laura, case of, 199.
Brown, Dr. T., on the physiology of
mind, 41; on the co-existence of
conceptions, 136; on secondary laws
of suggestion, 221.
Browne, Sir T., the harmonies of
nature, 167.
Brown-Séquard, on the production of
rigor mortis, &; on the production of
tetanus, 93; on reflex irritation, 119.
Buck nill, a case of insanity with chorea,
314; on the specific gravity of the
brain, 460; on the diagnosis of in-
sanity, 483; on counter-irritation in
insanity, 413.
Burrows, a case of homicidal insanity
with epilepsy, 352; case of reflex in-
sanity, 119; case of mania from sea-
sickness, 272.
Burton, R. F., on the mental develop-
ment of the Indian savage, 145.
Cabanis, on the secretion of thought,
Cannabis Indica, action of, on sensory
ganglia, 263.
Carlyle, on unconscious intellect, 221.
Carpenter, Dr., on sensori-motor action,
49; on the seat of common sensation,
Cazauvieh, case of mania transitoria,
Cerebral convolutions, structure of, 60-
63; nerve-cells of, 60-63; vicarious
action of, 96; disease of, 453.
Cerebral hemispheres, 123.
Change of life, as a cause of insanity,
Channing, Rev. Dr., on change of cha-
racter, 182.
Character, the, 181, 183.
Child, first movements of, 298; incohe-
rent discourse of, 303; fallacious me-
mory of, 308; delirium of, 398.
Chorea, as a cause of insanity, 287.
Civilization, influence of, on increase of
insanity, 229.
Clarke, Lockhart, on the structure of
the convolutions, 60; on volition,
169; on a granular condition of
the ventricles, 455; on pigmentary
degeneration of nerve-cells, 467.
Classification, note on, 420-426.
Climacteric insanity, 275.
Clouston, Dr., on phthisical mania, 396;
on the temperature of the insane,
426; on general paralysis, 415.
Coeliac-axis, case of injury of, 271.
Coenesthesis, 154.
Coleridge, Hartley, 310.
Coleridge, S. T., on essential idea, 43;
on the principle of individuation, 59;
on fancy and imagination, 311.
Colloidal matter, Graham on, 46.
Comte, on illusory psychology, 37;
Mill's criticism of, 39; on impulse to
action, 154, 166.
Concept, development of, 211.
Conception, 132, 153.
Conditions of life, influence of, on in-
sanity, 242.
Connective tissue, morbid increase of,
Consanguinity, influence of, on insanity,
Consciousness, veracity of, 11; nature
of, 24, 25; introspective, 11-23;
seat of, 113; relation of, to ideation,
136, 139.
Consensus, 271, 471.
Convulsions, 87, 89; co-ordinate, 117,
201, 301; infantile, 299.
Cooper, Sir Astley, on cutting off sup-
ply of blood to brain, 261.
Cornelius, on the theory of vision, 104.
Corpora amylacea, 464.
Corpus callosum, defect and absence of,
Counter-irritation, in the treatment of
insanity, 510.
Craving, 150.
Craziness, 408.
Cretinism, 251.
Crichton, case of infantile insanity,
308.
Custom, effect of, 163.
Cynocephalus, convolutions of, 250.
Cysticercus in the brain, 286, 452.
D'Alembert, on Locke, 26.
Darwin, Dr., on sensori-motor acts,
121; on ideomotor movements, 129;
on action of idea on sensation, 131;
on rapidity of muscular action, 138,
147; on memory, 209; on the trans-
formation of nervous diseases, 444.
Degeneracy, Morel on, 246.
Degeneration, theroid, 248, 332; inflam-
matory, 466; connective tissue, 466;
fatty, 466; amyloid, 467; pigmen-
tary, 467; calcareous, 468.
Deliberation, 139.
Delirium, difference of, from mania,
309, 311; intermission of, 450; tre-
mens, 474.
Delusions, production of, 269, 277; sus-
picious, 276; salacious, 278; of gran-
deur, 415; mode of dealing with,
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