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Clinical Notes regarding Epileptic Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Adam Addison*
Affiliation:
Boyal Lunatic Asylum, Montrose

Extract

The following observations are based upon fifty cases, and compiled from notes taken by Dr. Howden and myself. They are published merely as a contribution to the statistics of the subject, which are by no means numerous. Of the cases admitted into the Montrose Asylum during the last eight years, 3 8 per cent, were epileptics. Their physiognomical characteristics are given in the following table.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1866 

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References

‘Pathologie und Therapie der Psychosen.’Google Scholar

See ‘Journal of Mental Science,’ Jan., 1863.Google Scholar

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