Du Bois Reymond, on electrical currents
in nerves, 433.
Durand-Fardel, on suicide in children,
320.

Dwellings, the insane in private, 499.

E.

Far, the insane, 398.
Eccentricity, 336, 479.
Ecstatics, religious, 343.

Education, influence of, on insanity,
237; female, 238.
Effection, 191.

Ego, conception of, 157, 181; trans-
formation of, 182; identity of, 183.
Embolism, a case of, causing insanity,
286.

Emerson, 37, 213.

Emotion, 148-167; nerve-centres of,
124, 156; relation of, to idea, 148,
155; influence of condition of nerve
element on, 154-156; influence of,
on the organic and animal life, 158,
159; bodily condition of, 160; dis-
ordered, 161; egoistic and altruistic,
162; development of, 163, 165; re-
lation of, to will, 184, 185.
Epilepsie larvée, 445.

Epilepsy, a cause of idiocy, 252; a
cause of insanity, 287.
Esquirol, case of monomania in children,

313; case of homicidal impulse in a
little girl, 323; case of sexual pre-
cocity in a child, 325; on moral
alienation, 344.

Expression, different modes of, 197;
the art of, 208.

Eye, adjustment of, 104, 106.

F.

Falret, Dr. Jules, on the epileptic
aura, 399.

Fancy and imagination, 311.

Ferriar, Dr., on injuries of the brain,

449.

Fever, influence of, on insanity, 260 ;
intermittent, 267; deliram of, 269.
Fichte, 38.

Final causes, 75, 97, 173.

Flourens, on section of semicircular
canals, 107; on removal of the hemi-
spheres, 108.

Folie circulaire, 402.

Food, refusal of, in insanity, 384, 514.
Force, different kinds of, 68; mental,
68, 69; conservation of, 1, 115.
Form of matter, 75.

Frog, vivisections of, 72, 90.

G.

Ganglia, sensory, 48, 89; hemisphe-
rical, 123.

Genius, 35-37; and insanity, 336.
Gerhardt, case of embolism causing
insanity, 286.

Goethe, 1, 34, 59, 69, 132, 341, 507.
Gout, as a cause of insanity, 264, 268.
Graham, on colloidal matter, 46.
Gratiolet, on the brain of an idiot, 250.
Gregarinida, structure of, 55.
Griesinger, on psychical reflex action,
96; cases of insanity with ague,
267; insanity with rheumatism, 268;
case of homicidal insanity with epi-
lepsy, 353.

Guislain, case of mania in a young
girl, 318; on the melancholic incuba-
tion of insanity, 390.

H.

Hematoma auris, 398.

Hallam, on the creation of man in the
image of the ape, 126.
Hallucinations, 118, 120, 132, 134;
muscular, 200, 400; sexual, 275; of
hearing and vision, 303, 383; in chil-
dren, 304, 309; idea produced, 309.
Hamilton, Sir William, on the con-
ditions of the veracity of conscious-
ness, 11; vague use of consciousness
by, 24; on obscure perceptions, 38.
Hartley, on secondary automatic mo-
tions, 83, 97; on duplex and com-
plex ideas, 141; on language, 147 ;
on the will, 169, 189.
Haslam, case of destructive impulse in
a child, 323; case of moral insanity
in a boy, 327.
Haschisch, 118.

Head, injuries to, causing insanity, 286.
Hearing, hallucinations of, 303, 383.
Heart, disease of, in the insane, 470.
Heidenhain, on the evolution of heat
during muscular contraction, 436.
Helmholtz, on the rate of conduction
by nerve, 431.

Hemispheres, cerebral, first appearance
of, 50; in amphibia, 50 ; in birds, 50;
in mammalia, 51; functions of, 51;
sensibility and insensibility of, 51,
156: convolutions of, 53 55; removal
of, 109; limited action of each, 146,
Hereditary insanity, 330, 361; progno-
sis of, 488.

Hereditary taint, influence of, on spinal
cord, 6; on insanity, 243; charac-
ter of, 342.
Heyse, on the expression of thought,
198

Hobbes, on innate idea, 128, 145; on
language, 147; on the co-existence
of ideas, 147; on the care of self,
150, 165; on the will, 169, 189.
Holland, Sir H., 64; on co-existence
and sequence of conscious states, 136;
on slowness of thought, 431.
Homicidal impulse, 348, 351-356, 478,
481.

Howe, Dr., on the causes of idiocy, 253.
Humanity, retrograde metamorphosis
of, 333.

Humboldt, 9, 35.

Hume, on the constancy of mental
laws, 140; on innate ideas, 155;
on the will, 189.

Huxley, on the brain of a Bushwoman,
54; on the structure of the Gregari-
nida, 55.

Hydrocyanic acid, use of, in insanity,
513.

Hyoscyamus, use of, in insanity, 512.
Hypnotism, 160, 196.

Hypochondria, diagnosis of, 479.
Hypothesis, formation of, 133.
Hysteria, 287; with insane tempera-
ment, 343; diagnosis of, 476.

I.

on

Idea, latent, 16, 139; innate, 126; as-
similation of, 18; nerve-centres of,
123; action of, on movement, 129, of
sense, 131, on nutrition and secretion,
135, on idea, 135, 139; organizing
power of, 134.

Idealization, 123, 127, 215.
Ideas, association of, 17, 137, 140; fun-
damental, 128; development of, 128,
139, 143; general and special laws of
association of, 141; duplex and co-
plex, 142.

Ideation, 51, 123; in the lower animals,

52.

Idiocy, causes of, 253.

Idiots, brains of, 55, 57, 249; senses of,
118.

Imbecility, intellectual, 328; moral,
329, 420; its treatment, 516.
Imagination, 209; relation to memory,
213; function of, 215; in children, 310.
Incoherence, 407; analogy between mo-
tor and mental, 410.
Individuation, principle of, 59.
Induction, 5.

Infant, earliest movements of, 71;
anencephalic, 71.

Insanity, causes of, 225; concurrence

of causes of, 226; physical and moral
causes of, 227, 284; predisposing
causes of, 228; increase of, 229, 330;

proximate causes of, 249; with inter-
mittent fever, 267; with rheumatism,
268; with gout, 264, 268; with ute-
rine disorder, 272, 448; knowledge
of right and wrong in, 290, 392,
477; varieties of, 335; of early life,
298-334; sensorial, 299, 301;
puerperal, 274, 396, 489; of lacta-
tion, 274, 489; of pregnancy, 274,
399; climacteric, 275, 421, 489; hys-
terical, 287, 396, 489; epileptic, 287,
302, 352, 421, 444, 489; syphilitic,
288, 489; choreic, 313; ovarian, 421 ;
cataleptoid, 315; sexual, 405, 421;
affective or moral, 320, 344, 356, 366;
instinctive or impulsive, 321, 345;
hereditary, 330; general ideational,
387; partial ideational, 312, 370;
periodic or recurrent, 402; idiopa-
thic, 422; feigned, 475; in animals,
302; classification of, 368; patho-
logy of, 426-471; diagnosis of, 472
-484; prognosis of, 484-490; treat-
ment of, 492; danger to life in, 485;
cases illustrating causation of, 291;
family treatment of, 499; individual
treatment of, 502-516; moral treat-
ment of, 503; medical treatment of,
508.

Insolation, a cause of insanity, 286.
Inspiration, 340.

Instinctive acts, 108.

Instincts, inborn, 321; acquired, 83.
Intellectorium commune, 100, 123;
causes of disorder of, 249.
Intestines, motions of, 57.

Intuitions, 127, 215; universal, 125:
motor, 192-196.

Irradiation of movements, 85.
Irritability of tissue, 57.
Irritation, reflex, 118, 270.

K.

Katelectrotonus, 434.

Kerner, case of epileptic insanity in a
child, 318.

L.

Lactation, insanity of, 274, 399; its
treatment, 511.

Language, organic growth of, 4, 127 :
seat of, 125; signification of, 143,
147; character of 199; importance
of, to conception, 198.
Larrey, Baron, case of injury of cœliac
axis, 271.

Lebert, on abscess of the brain, 450.
Leibnitz, on free actions, 25; on un-
conscious conceptions, 38.

Leidesdorf, on warm baths in the treat-

ment of insanity, 509.
Lister, Prof. J., on coagulation of the
blood, 46; on inhibitory nerve phe-
nomena, 159; on the early stages of
inflammation, 437.

Locke, on empirical psychology, 26;
on continuity in nature, 55.
Lungs, diseases of, in the insane, 469.
Lypemania, 365.

M.

Mania, 365, 387; transitoria, 287, 316,
402, 440; choreic, 314; in young
children, 301, 318; difference of,
from delirium, 309, 311; sine delirio,
343, 367; case of acute. 388; moral
perversion in, 389; condition of intel-
lect in, 391; state of consciousness
in, 392; puerperal, 396; hysterical,
396; phthisical, 396; memory in,
399; metastatic, 422; hallucina-
tions in, 400; temperature in, 400;
sleeplessness in, 401; excessive ac-
tivity in, 401; récurrent, 402; course
of, 403; chronic, 403; diagnosis of
acute, 474; of chronic, 475; prog-
nosis of, 487; treatment of, 508-
513

Marshall, John, on the brains of two
idiots, 250.

Masturbation, 232; a cause of insanity,
285, 422.

Matter, different kinds of, 68; form of,
75.

Mattenci, on electrical currents in
nerve, 433.

Melancholia, 365, 374; in children,

319; simplex, 343; cases of, 376-
381; remissions, 380; hallucinations
in, 382, 400; with stupor, 384;
course of, 3-5; case of acute, 397;
diagnosis of, 478, 479; prognosis of,
486; treatment of, 512.

Membranes of the brain, disease of,
450, 453.

Memory, 209: Dr. Darwin on, 209;
disorders of, 217; differences of, 217;
of old age, 219; of children, 219;
Swedenborg on, 222; organic nature
of, 209, 217.

Meningitis, 474; a case of chronic
tubercular, causing insanity, 2¬ti.
Menstruation, influence of, on mind,
265, 274, 277, 341.

Mental action, material conditions of,
13; unconscious, 14-20, 32; residua
of. 89.

Mental force, 67, 68 ; dependence ‹f, 69.
Mercury, its use, in general paralysis,

514.

Metaphysics, neglect of, 8; not pro-
gressive, 9.
Metastasis, 281.

Method, metaphysical, 6; inductive,
6, 7; objective, 27-30; physiologi-
cal, 24, 27, 28; psychological, 39.
Meyer, Dr. Ludwig, on mania transi-
toria, 317; on the temperature in
general paralysis, 416.
Microcephalic idiocy, 249.

Mill, James, on sensation as a cause of
movement, 102; on ideation, 123;
on the senses, 129; on complex
ideas, 142; on acquired movements,
175.

Mill, John Stuart, on the psycholo-

gical method, 39; on individuality,
336; on the co-existence of conscious
states, 136.

Milton, 69, 167, 177, 322.
Mimosa pudica, 72, 446.
Mind, inactive, 17; plan of develop-
ment of, 28; degeneration of, 29;
history of, 29; organization of, 33,
44; method of study of, 34; mate-
rial conditions of, 42, 44; essential
idea of, 43; time-rate of activity of,
431; metaphysical conception of, 43,
67; pathology of, 223.
Mitchell, Dr. A., on consanguineous
marriages, 253; on the insane in pri-
vate dwellings, 499.

Monomania, 365, 370 ; in children, 312 ;
course of, 36; condition of intellect
in, 372; diagnosis of, 476; prognosis
of, 487; treatment of, 515.
Monomanie raisonnante, 367.
Monopathie furieuse, 318.
Montaigne, on the number of the senses,
146.

Moral insanity, 356; cases of, 358-
364; with epilepsy, 364; diagnosis
of, 480; prognosis of, 488.
Moral sense, 157; acquisition of, 164 ;
loss of, 165.

Morel, on degenerate varieties, 246,
343; case of mania in a girl, 318;
characters of hereditary taint, 342;
on the classification of insanity, 424;
on épilepsie larvée, 445; on insanity
connected with epilepsy, 364.
Morphia, subcutaneous injection of, in
insanity, 513.

Motives, 150, 153.

Motorium commune, 100, 191.
Movements of intestines, 57; of Heart,
57; of decapitated frog, 72; 1-ten-
tial or abstract, 76, 114, 191; auto-
matic, 67, 72-79; secondary auto-
matic, 76, 97, 110; rhythmical, S1;
irradiation of, 85; sensori-motor, 102,
103, 108, 121; ideomotor, 126, 129;

voluntary, 175, 179; residua of, 191;
illusory, 200; sense of, 202.
Müller, on associate movements, 78; on
voluntary action, 113; on the organic
conditions of intellect and emotion,
288.

Mundy, Baron, M.D., on the family
treatment of the insane, 502.

N.

Nature, deification of, 1; superstitious
dread of, 1, 2; observation of, 2, 4;
subjective explanation of, 3; the har-
monies of, 158, 167.
Negro, brain of, 54.

Nerve-cells, 44, 47, 63; differences of,

60, 65; degeneration of, 67, 465;
irritable feebleness of, 86.
Nerve-centres, 48; co-ordination of, 57;
ideational, 58, 123; sensory, 58, 99 ;
tertiary or reflex, 51, 71-96; motor,
191; organic, 58; inhibitory action
of, 159.

Nerve-element, intimate constitution of,
64; instability of, 86; individuality

of, 436; intrinsic action of, 438, 442.
Nerve-fibres, function of, 47; connexion
with cells, 59, 61; rate of conduction
by, 429; electrical currents of, 432;
anelectrotonus of, 434; katelectroto-
nus of, 434; fatty degeneration of, 92.
Nervous function, physiological re-
searches into, 429; on waste pro-
ducts of, 436.

Nervous system, simplest type of, 47;
complication of, 48; different centres
of, 58.

Neurosis spasmodica, 257, 335.
Nicolai, case of, 307.

Nisus, the organic, 69, 212.

Novalis, on the passions, 152.

Nutrition, influence of cerebro-spinal
system on, 91.

0.

Opium, use of, in insanity, 512.
Organization, the conception of, 106,
210; Von Baer's law of, 144, 165.
Othæmatoma, 395.

Over-population, influence of, on in-
crease of insanity, 232.

P.

Pachymeningitis, idiopathic, 456.
Paget, James, on rhythmical movements,
81; on memory, 209; on the brain

of an idiot, 250; on the effects of
the organic virus, 267.
Pain, memory of, 219; psychical, 283;
diversities of, 392.

Paralysis, general, 205, 410; causes of,
411; symptoms of, 412-416; tem-
perature in, 416, 418; hallucinations
in, 414; course of, 417; epileptiform
attacks in, 418; morbid changes in,
456; diagnosis of, 482; prognosis of,
488; treatment of, 513, 515.
Passions, 148, 152, 160; Spinoza on
the primitive, 162.

Percept on, sensory, 49, 113; ideational,
51, 113; loose use of word, 112.
Pflüger, experiments on reflex action
in frog, 72; on the laws of reflex
movements, 85; case of reflex epi-
lepsy and neuralgia, 92; on reflex
movements during sleep, 96.
Philippeau, on nerve-fibres as conduc-
tors, 47; on removal of one hemi-
sphere, 146.

Philosophy, Ionian school of, 2; meta-
physical, 235; inductive, 5.

Phthisis, as predisposing to insanity,
233; in the insane, 470.

Pia mater, changes of, in insanity,
465.

Pigeon, removal of hemispheres of, 109.
Pigment granules, movements of, 57.
Plato, 4, 5.

Poisons, morbid, 266.

Potassium, bromide of, in insanity, 514;
iodide of, 514.
Precocity, sexual, 325.

Pregnancy, influence of, on insanity,
273; insanity of, 274, 399.
Prichard, Dr., case of moral insanity
in a child, 325; on moral insanity,
357.

Prochaska, on the action of the sen-
sorium commune, 72; general law of
reflex action, 98.

Productive activity, 20, 186, 188, 212,
290.

Prolapsus uteri, a cause of melancholia,
272.

Protozoa, 45; movements of, 46.
Psychical pain, 283.

Psychical tone, 156, 157; disturbance
of, 268, 281.

Psychology, empirical, 9; transcenden-
tal. 10; uncertainties and contra-
dictions of, 10; individual, 14;
method of, 24.

Pubescence, influence of, on mind, 152,
173; insanity of, 273, 421.

Puerperal insanity, 274, 488; treat-
ment of, 510.

Pupils, state of, in general paralysis,

412.

R.

Rat, removal of hemispheres of, 103.
Ratiocination, 139.

Reflection, 136, 138, 144, 159; uncon-
scious steps of, 137.

Reflex action, 72, 79, 90; laws of, 85;
increase of, 93.

Reflex irritation, 118, 270.
Reformer, the, 185, 187.

Religion, influence of, on insanity, 238.
Renaudin, case of moral insanity in a
boy, 327.

Residua, motor, 192, 193, 417; voli-
tional, 172, 179; ideational, 127,
210; sensory, 104, 106; spinal, 76.
Retinitis pigmentosa, 469.
Richter, Jean Paul, on creative ac-
tivity, 19; on dreaming, 223.
Rigor mortis, 89.

Robertson, Dr., on packing in the wet
sheet, 510.

Romberg, on co-ordinate convulsions,
201.

S.

Sankey, Dr., on the specific gravity
of the brain, 460; on general para-
lysis, 457.

Schiff, on the production of rigor mortis,

89; on degeneration of nerve-fibre,
93; on removal of the hemispheres,
108.

Schlager, on injuries of head causing
insanity, 286.

Schroeder van der Kolk, 63, 66, 79, 91,
101, 271, 453.
Sclerosis, cerebral, 459.

Scrofula, as predisposing to insanity,

23:3.

Sea-sickness, case of, causing mania,
272.

Sects, fanatical religious, 240.

Self, affections of, 150; case of, 150,
165.

Self-consciousness, incompetency of, 11-

23.

Sensations, seat of common, 99; ab-
stract. 106; subjective, 65; associa-
tion of, 107.

Sense, the muscular, 202.
Senses, appearance of special, 49; edu
cation of, 109, 121; defects of, 116 ;
excessive use of, 116; the vital, 275.
Sensibility, different kinds of, 50 ; emo-
tional, 51; muscular, 202; perver-
sion f. 279.

Sensor: insanity, 115, 117, 299, 301.
Sensori motor action, 49.

Sensormit commune, 99; disorder of,

Sequestration, excessive employment
of, 494.

Sexes, insanity in the, 235, 248.

Sexual excess, a cause of insanity, 285.
Sexual insanity, 405, 421.

Sexual organs, influence of, on mind,
152, 273, 278, 341.
Shaftesbury, 133.

Shakspeare, 167, 213, 226.
Shelley, 132.

Skae, Dr., case of homicidal insanity
with epilepsy, 353; on sexual in-
sanity, 405; on the classification of
insanity, 420; on the specific gravity
of the brain, 460.

Sleep, cerebral circulation during, 438;
in insanity, 384, 401; on mode of
procuring, in insanity, 508.
Socrates, 3.

Somnambulism, 306.

Speech, unconscious, 109, 111; loss of,
196-199.

Spencer, Herbert, on memory, 220.
Spinal cord, 71-80; exhaustion of,
84; nutrition of, 81, 93; constitution
of, 84; causes of disorder of, 86-94;
excessive stimulation of, 88; supply of
blood to, 89.

Spinoza, on final causes, 75, 80; on in-
voluntary action, 96; on the images
of dreams, 131; on the primitive
passions, 162; on desires, 166; on
the will, 168.

Stannins, on rigor mortis, 89.

Statistics, of insanity, 236; function
of, 245.

Stiff, Dr., on the asylum ear, 39S.
Stigmata, 343.

Stimuli, organic, 109.

Suicide, in children, 320; suicidal im-
pulse, 346, 351.
Superstition, 1, 2.

Sutherland, Dr., on the urine of the in-
sane, 401.

Swedenborg, on memory, 222.

Sympathy, 90-92, 118, 270, 276, 2×1;
pathological, 443; heterogeneous,