DeepDyve eBooks - Insanity in ancient and modern life, with chapters on its prevention.

In prehistoric times.

Tuke, Daniel Hack

Pages: 1 –20

This chapter begins with a discussion of the relative extent of the causes of insanity in antiquity and modern civilization and the main causes of mental disorder, including the influence of civilization. The author considers insanity in prehistoric times as it relates to prehistoric habits of...

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Among the Jews and Egyptians.

Tuke, Daniel Hack

Pages: 21 –41

Passing from wholly uncivilised men to a higher grade, we may apply the same tests to the state of society depicted in the early and some of the later books of the Old Testament, and then to Egyptian, Greek, and Roman society, the problem for solution being whether the character and extent of...

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Among the Greeks.

Tuke, Daniel Hack

Pages: 42 –65

Glancing at the various causes of mental disease in their relation to Greek life, it is unquestionable that they must at certain periods have exerted a considerable influence. Intemperance in general, Bacchanalian orgies, vicious habits, cannot fail to have induced attacks of lunacy. At the same...

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Among the Romans.

Tuke, Daniel Hack

Pages: 66 –84

This chapter considers Roman life in relation to the causes of mental disease. After differentiating Roman life from Greek life, and from early Roman society from later Roman society, the author looks at intoxication and habits in regard to intemperance, defective nourishment, poverty, and moral...

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Insanity chiefly in relation to the working classes.

Tuke, Daniel Hack

Pages: 87 –102

This chapter considers insanity in relation to working class citizens of England. The author begins with a discussion of modern civilized life, arguing that dogmatic assertions about the nature and prevalence of insanity are not warranted by facts. He notes the relative among of insanity among...

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Insanity chiefly in relation to the higher classes.

Tuke, Daniel Hack

Pages: 103 –128

This chapter considers the relation between higher classes of modern society and mental disorders. The author notes the prevalence of moral causes among the upper classes before examining the figures from private asylums on the prevalence of insanity among these classes. He also notes such causes...

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Facts and figures in regard to the increase of insanity.

Tuke, Daniel Hack

Pages: 129 –136

It may be said that the increase of recognised insanity in England during the last half century has been enormous; the great mass of this is easily explained by (1) the attention of the public and Parliament having been directed to the care and treatment of the insane and by the consequent...

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General truths.

Tuke, Daniel Hack

Pages: 139 –156

Preventive medicine has been justly regarded as the highest department of the art of the physician; prophylaxis a higher aim than therapeutics. It comprises two great divisions. There is, in relation to insanity, the prevention of the disease in others-an altruistic prophylaxis; and the...

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Warnings of danger.

Tuke, Daniel Hack

Pages: 158 –177

This chapter describes warning signs of mental disorder. These include: inability to sleep; night horrors; inability for mental work; emotional warnings, such as depression; nervous dread; and irresolution. The following temperaments can also predispose one to insanity: the feebleminded...

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Importance of cheerfulness, sufficient mental rest, etc.

Tuke, Daniel Hack

Pages: 178 –199

This chapter emphasizes the importance of cheerfulness and sufficient mental rest in the prophylaxis of mental disease and insanity. The author takes his information from the School of Salerno, whose first canon of mental health is "a cheerful mind," and whose second canon is "rest, or quiet." In...

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