This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...insane predisposition is emphasized by a number of immediate relatives having been insane. Alcoholic complications are very numerous, and where one exists, a murder, especially a wife murder, may be the result of On Insanity, p.-169. this, as alcoholic lunatics, influenced by their marital-infidelity delusions and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...insane predisposition is emphasized by a number of immediate relatives having been insane. Alcoholic complications are very numerous, and where one exists, a murder, especially a wife murder, may be the result of On Insanity, p.-169. this, as alcoholic lunatics, influenced by their marital-infidelity delusions and hallucinations, commit peculiarly horrible crimes of this kind. A drunken katatoniac disemboweled his wife in Chicago, running into the street in his nightgown. He was sent to the penitentiary, after puzzling the doctors with the alternations of that disease. (Periodically the daily papers recount the acts of an ordinary katatoniac as a "wonderful case baffling all physicians "). Spitzka (p. 254) mentions Lennon, a New York alcoholic, who cut his wife up in regular checker-board pattern. That both alcoholic and traumatic insanity are murderous might raise the quibble in court as to which the crime was attributable. As the head injury impels to the alcoholic lunacy it should not matter, but there is a psychological interest in the disentanglement. The delusion of the wife's unfaithfulness might shift the homicide upon the liquor lunacy. 1. Alcoholism may in the ancestry predispose through transmitted nervous or mental instability, so that traumatism will more likely induce insanity in a descendant. 2. It renders the individual liable to accidents, despite the old saying that drunkards escape injury. 3. Previous alcoholic habit complicates and aggravates traumatic cases as it does pneumonia, and may be the determining factor of insanity, where the abstemious, with the same injury, would survive and may remain sane. It retards recovery; and alcohol, after a head wound or sun-stroke, readily congests the brain, --a condition especially to be ...
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Very Good in None jacket. We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! American first edition, first printing. Published in 1889. Book has no jacket. Covers are in Very Good + condition. Minor wear to spine ends and edges of covers. Light soiling to covers. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. Pages lightly browning. The binding is straight and tight. No remainder mark. Gift inscription on front end page.
