arteries upon the circulation-Diseased arteries a cause of apoplexy-Diagnosis
of insanity-Affections with which insanity is liable to be confounded-Distinction
between insanity and delirium-Diagnosis of cerebral congestion-Distinction
between insanity and cerebritis-Diagnosis between meningitis and inflammation
of the substance of the brain-Anesthesia preceding cerebro-spinal disease-
Incipient symptoms of general paralysis-Diagnosis between general paralysis
and wasting palsy-Diagnosis of softening of the brain-Premonitory symptoms
of acute and chronic softening-Cerebral abscesses and tumours-Importance
of knowing the antecedents of patients-Diagnosis of cerebral cephalalgia-
Importance of cephalalgia in a diagnostic point of view-Neuralgic and Rheumatic
cephalalgia-Nervous headache, and the cephalalgia symptomatic of tumours of
the brain-Diagnosis between cerebral and idiopathic sickness of the stomach-
Treatment of incipient insanity-Duties of the physician-Depletion in insanity,
its use and abuse-Caution to be exercised in the exhibition of purgatives-Use
of hellebore by the ancients for the cure of insanity-Value of opium in the treat-
ment of incipient insanity-Use of chloroform in cases of insanity-Isolation of
the patient from his friends-Mr. Spurgeon's method of subduing evil thoughts-
Necessity of self-control-Importance of early treatment of organic disease of the
brain-Value of tonic treatment in incipient apoplexy and paralysis-Treatment
of softening of the brain-Disease of the brain caused by mechanical injuries to the
head-Injurious effects of blows upon the head-Importance of watching the state
of the brain after injuries to the head-Various diseases of the brain preventible if
treated in the early stage-Abscesses from blows upon the head-Course of
treatment to be adopted after severe blows upon the head-Importance of the
early detection of head symptoms-Treatment of cases of impaired intelligence
-Importance of a cultivation of the faculty of attention-Treatment of impair-
ment and loss of memory-Treatment of the mind after an attack of insanity-
Susceptibility of the memory to improvement-Mental remedies for the improve-
ment of memory-On the cultivation of the memory-Montaigne's loss of memory
-On the advantages and disadvantages of a commonplace book-Impairment of
memory the result of undue straining in early life-Importance of the careful
cultivation of the memory-Excessive straining of the memory in schools-When
does the intellect begin to decline ?-The vital, not the intellectual, principle
affected in old age-Celebrated men who have retained their intellectual powers
to a great age, as exhibited in the lives of Cherubini, Corneille, M. des Quen-
sounnières, M. Leroy, Fontenelle, Voltaire, Richelieu, Mr. Waller, John Maple-
toft, Titian, Benjamin West, R. Cumberland, Handel, Ben Jonson, Sir Isaac New-
ton, Locke, Dr. Johnson, Bacon, Chaucer, Sir E. Coke, Lord Eldon, Lord Kenyon,
Lord Hardwicke, Lord Stowell, Bolingbroke, and Lord Mansfield-Is great
vigour of memory allied to defect of judgment?—Great strength of memory com-
bined with intellectual vigour, illustrated in the lives of Dr. Johnson, Edmund
Burke, Clarendon, Gibbon, Locke, Archbishop Tillotson, Grotius, Pascal, Leibnitz,
Euler, Muratori, Ben Jonson, Themistocles, Cyrus, Hortensius, Niebuhr, Sir
James Mackintosh, Dugald Stewart, Dr. Gregory, and Seneca-Kind treatment of
the insane-Duties of the psychological physician
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