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Observations on the Morbid Anatomy of Mental Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

George A. Watson
George A. Watson*
Affiliation:
Lancaster County Asylum, Rainhill
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The following observations are founded upon the records of 301 autopsies performed by myself at Rainhill Asylum. They are concerned principally with certain abnormal and morbid manifestations which occur within the crania of the insane. Of these the chief are, on the one hand, indications of subevolution, as shown by macroscopic structural defects of the cerebral hemispheres, such as deficiency of weight or of convolutional complexity, and on the other, evidence of dissolution as exhibited by wasting of the cerebral hemispheres. The relationship existing between these abnormal and morbid manifestations and certain other intracranial appearances is also discussed. No attempt, however, has been made—for reasons which will afterwards be given—at any close correlation between these abnormal and morbid manifestations and the mental states recorded during life. The observations, therefore, are of a pathological rather than a clinical nature.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 56 , Issue 233 , April 1910 , pp. 227 - 253
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1910 

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References

(1) The references to Bolton's papers dealing with the subject are: Google Scholar
(1) Arch. of Neurol., vol. 2, 1903 Google Scholar
(2) Brain, part cii, 1903 Google Scholar
(3) Journ. of Ment. Sci., April, 1905, and April, 1906. Google Scholar
(2) Journ. of the Scientific Soc. of Saxony, vol. xxvii, p. 389; abstract in Centralb. f. die Physiol., 1902, p. 294. Google Scholar
3 (3) The above data are quoted in Quain's Anatomy, vol. iii, part i. Google Scholar
4 (4) See Arch. of Neurol., vol. ii, p. 438, and Journ. of Ment. Sci., April, 1905, p. 20.Google Scholar
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