Lectures on madness in its medical, legal, and social aspectsLindsay & Blakiston, 1873 - 186 pages |
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Page 163 - Idiocy is not a disease but a condition in which the intellectual faculties are never manifested or have never been developed sufficiently to enable the idiot to acquire such an amount of knowledge as persons of his own age, and placed in similar circumstances with himself are capable of receiving.
Page 180 - tis, when destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind ! But those, that 'gainst stiff gales laveering go, Must be at once resolved, and skilful too.
Page 13 - I would call upon my own sex to use its physical force, that unmistakeable evidence of sovereignty, to scourge them back within their proper bounds!
Page 13 - She is the most admirable handiwork of God, in her true place and character. Her place is at man's side. Her office, that of the Sympathizer; the unreserved, unquestioning Believer; the Recognition, withheld in every other manner, but given, in pity, through woman's heart, lest man should utterly lose faith in himself; die Echo of God's own voice, pronouncing— 'It is well done!
Page 13 - All the separate action of woman is, and ever has been, and always shall be, false, foolish, vain, destructive of her own best and holiest qualities, void of every good effect and productive of intolerable mischiefs. Man is a wretch without woman ; but woman is a monster — and, thank Heaven ! an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster — without man as her acknowledged principal.
Page 9 - Multitudes of human beings come into the world weighted with a destiny against which they have neither the will nor the power to contend ; they are the step-children of Nature, and groan under the worst of all tyrannies — the tyranny of a bad organization.
Page 125 - There she continued sitting while we were asking questions and conversing, so that many minutes must have passed. One arm was now raised, then the other, and where they were left there they remained. It was now a curious sight to see her sitting up in bed, her eyes open, staring lifelessly, her arms outstretched, yet without any visible sign of animation.
Page 124 - A few days after our first visit we were summoned to observe a remarkable change in her symptoms; the attendants said she was dying, or in a trance ; she was lying in bed motionless, and apparently senseless ; it had been said that the pupils were dilated and motionless, and some apprehensions of effusion on the brain had been entertained, but on coming to examine them closely, it was found that they readily contracted when the light fell upon them ; her eyes were open, but no rising of the chest,...
Page 98 - ... it to heaven. The act of violence, whatever form it may take, is but the symptom of a deep morbid perversion of the nature of the individual, of a morbid state which may at any moment be excited into a convulsive activity, either by a powerful impression from without producing some great MM,wrnoiTV moral shock, or by some cause of bodily disturbance — intemperance, sexual exhaustion, masturbation, or menstrual disturbance.
Page 118 - At four o'clock in the morning the nurse awaked me, and said that her mistress had had no sleep ; that she was sitting up in bed talking to herself, but that instant had expressed a wish to see me. I rose and went to her. There was only a rush-light in a remote part of the chamber. As soon as she saw who I was she told me to sit down and look at her. I said, 'I do.