Abstract

BY J. WORKMAN,N.B.When we take under deliberation the anatomico-patho. logical records of psychiatry, we proceed in our task without hesitation, large proportion rather, perhaps, therapeutics.and a certain degree of mistrust in a of the observations laid before us, or in their vaiue in relation to mental However remote from our purpose it maybe, to mistake the instructive importance of this branch of medical science, we must yet, at the very outset, confess that the pathological anatomy of mental diseasesstill presents numerous unsolved problems, of all run which the their On the it isour duty to indicate. We find that a largewhich without affect the the brain and slightestspinal marrowdiseases course otherdisorder.hand, the more delicate healthy and the diseaseddifferences, state,)(i. e., betweenthe pre-sented, (and it may s ith fair probability be assumed that such minute transformations exist,) have hitherto evaded our means, or rather, perhaps, our methods of investigation. Nornerve should andsystem seek for wealone, the oughtor to atit is notnot of psychical clearlythere, we pri-foundations distinguishder von Dr.disorders; betweenPathologic Studierendepsychischen MaximilianKraiikheiten Leidesdorff#{252}r Aerzte 148 mary than times and seconda’y be;[October, distinctionagencies.less rigidly,to us to be sometimesor lessit shouldbut veryit must difficultbe admittedto exhibitthat it.some-it is certainlyIt is still