A Text book of the Theory And Practice of Medicine volume 1
A Text book of the Theory And Practice of Medicine volume 1
Pepper, William, 1843-1898
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Lentz^ calls attention to a form of alcoholic insanity with expansive delusions and hallucinations of sight and hearing, which, very strangely, in most instances relate to God and a future state. Visions of supernatural beings, and esj)ecially of the Deity bathed in an aureola of light, perpetually delight the patient ; the ministrations of angels seem to bring relief, or may- hap the voice of God himself is heard in command or instruction. It would appear that two forms of alcoholic insanity m...ust be recognized — one a lypomania, or melancholia with delusions of persecution; the other a megalomania, with a strong tendency to religious hallucinations. GROUP III. — PURE INSANITIES. Melancholia. Definition. — An acute or chronic pure insanity, characterized by the domi- nance of depressive emotions. Melancholia usually comes on gradually, with insomnia, increasing depres- ' Spitzka says they are usually of vision: Dr. F. Lentz (De V Alcoholvime) says that they are almost exclusively of hearing: my experience is that both forms of hallucination are frequent.
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