Mental diseases: a public health problemMay, James Vance
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Mental diseases: a public health problem
May, James Vance
Mental health services; Psychology, Pathological
B. According to degree:
1. Inf. adstricta, or partial feeblemindedness (Weakness of a single
mental faculty)
a. Dysmnesia (weakness of memory)
b. Inf. adstr. surdo-mutorum (feeblemindedness of the deaf and
dumb)
c. Inf. adstr. coecorum (feeblemindedness of the blind)
2. Inf. sparsa—General (absolute or relative weakness of general
mental faculties)
_Second Group_—Vesania.
_First Order_:—Dysthymodes or Dysthymia.
Varieties:
A. According to types:
1. Dys. transitoria or subita (acute)
2. Dys. continua (chronic)
3. Dys. remittens (remittent)
B. According to degree:
1. Dys. adstricta (limited or partial)
a. Dys. atra (melancholia or lypemania)
1. Homesickness.
2. Ferocitas et morositas ebriosorum (Alcoholic excitement
and ill humor)
b. Dys. candida (cheerful dysthymia or melancholia hilaris)
c. Dys. mutabilis (changeable or alternating)
2. Dys. sparsa (apathica)—General dysthymia (melancholia attonita).
_Second Order_:—Vesania anoëtos or Anoësia—Deliria of various forms.
Varieties:
A. According to types:
1. Anoësia transitoria or subita (acute)
Species:
a. A. e febre—fever delirium
b. A. e potu—alcoholism
c. A. ex affectu—affective
d. A. semisomnis—confusion of drunken sleep
e. A. Somnambula—somnambulism
2. Anoësia continua—chronic
3. Anoësia remittens—remittent.
B. According to degree:
1. Anoësia adstricta—partial or limited
a. A. ad sensationes—hallucinatory delirium
b. A. ad cogitationes—delusional delirium
2. Anoësia sparsa—general
a. Delirium tremens
_Third Order_:—Vesania Maniaca (Mania).
Varieties:
A. According to types:
1. Mania transitoria or subita—acute
a. M. s. a febre—encephalitic delirium
b. M. s. a potu—alcoholic mania
c. M. s. ex affectu—affective mania
d. M. s. e partu—puerperal mania
e. M. s. e mordo occulto—amentia occulta, which includes the
above forms.
2. Mania continua—chronic mania
3. Mania remittens—remittent mania
B. According to degree:
1. Mania adstricta seu instinctiva—partial or limited mania. (Mania
sine delirio of Pinel.) (Moral insanity, monomania.)
2. Mania sparsa—general mania.
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