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Special therapeutics according to homoeopathic principles
Special therapeutics according to homoeopathic principles Author:Franz Hartmann Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n. DISORDERED INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITIES. The first symptoms which we here meet with are, as mentioned above, the fixed ideas or monomanias, which torment the... more » majority of insane. They are very frequently indebted for their existence to the hallucinations and illusions just spoken of, they may, however, depend entirely on false intellectual views and conceptions. In consequence of this we see some of them imagine themselves impoverished, unfortunate, lost now, and for ever, pursued by enemies, betrayed and exposed to all kinds of injuries; others believe themselves to have been dead a long time, and speak of themselves in the third person only, and talk and act as if they no longer had any consciousness whatever of their still- existing individuality; others again imagine themselves to consist of butter, straw, glass, or other brittle substances, and take every possible precaution that they are not broken in pieces, or melted away. Some believe themselves transformed into animals, dogs, wolves, cats, etc., or other living or inanimate objects, as for example, in the case of the Englishman, who imagined himself a teapot and regulated all his gestures and action accordingly. The erroncous ideas of those who fancy themselves possessed, or criminals who may every moment be brought to judgment, belong here also, as well as the insane notions of those who believe themselves to be historical persons, emperors, kings, prophets, Christ, even God himself. Very frequently these monomanias may be referred to mere abstracts, moral, physical, or scientific conceptions, as for instance, the woman who murdered her child from the fixed conceit she had, that by its early death only, not alone her everlasting happiness, but that of her offspring also, would thereby be insured; irrevocably lost how...« less