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On Uterine Disease and Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Joseph Wiglesworth
Joseph Wiglesworth*
Affiliation:
Rainhill Asylum
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The question of the relation between Uterine Disease and Insanity is one which, though at different times it has attracted much attention, is yet very far from being thoroughly elucidated. On the one hand the subject is mixed up with so-called “Hysterical Insanity,” and on the other with “Amenorrhœal Insanity,” concerning the former of which it may be said that but little evidence has been advanced to prove its dependence upon distinct physical disease in the internal organs of reproduction; and, as regards the latter, it needs but little observation in an asylum to show that in the majority of cases in which Amenorrhœa is associated with insanity, the suppression of the menses is merely a symptom, and in no sense the cause of the disease.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 30 , Issue 132 , January 1885 , pp. 509 - 531
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1885 

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References

* “The Morisonian Lectures on Insanity for 1873,” by Skae, Dr. and Dr.Clonston, “Journal of Mental Science,” Vol. xx, p. 10.Google Scholar
† “Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases,” p 478.Google Scholar
‡ “A Manual of Psychological Medicine,” 4th edition, p. 348.Google Scholar
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† “British Medical Journal,” Vol. i, p. 123. 1883.Google Scholar
† Dr. Tuke says, “The proportion of admissions from uterine disorders appears to be about 5, or taking female admissions only, 10 per cent. Among asylums for the opulent classes exclusively, the ascertained proportion would be higher, the real proportion higher still, among both poor and rich.— Op. cit., p. 98.Google Scholar
* Where a case presented two or three different abnormalities, it is classified under the head of that which seemed the most important.Google Scholar
* See a Leading Article in the “Lancet,” 1883, Vol. ii, p. 286.Google Scholar
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