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Nerve Centres.--Brain and Spinal Cord.--The Nerves.--Nerve Cells and Fibres.--Motor and Sensory Nerves.--The Five Organs of Special Sense.--Nerve Impulses.--The Brain and Nervous System Always Busy.--Need of Rest.
_The Administration and Effect of Medicine._--The only proper way of giving medicine is by using standard weights and measures. Dropping medicine, or using spoons or cups, is no...
19. CHAPTER IX.The insane, like others, may suffer from almost any accident. It is not intended to treat of all accidents, nor how to care for every emergency. This is so large a subject as to...
15. CHAPTER V.New patients should receive special attention; their fears quieted; they should, if in a proper condition, be introduced to the other patients; the effect of being in so large a...
18. CHAPTER VIII._Care of Patients in the Earlier Stages of Insanity._--Patients in the earlier stages of insanity act differently, one from the other, when first brought to the asylum and place...
14. CHAPTER IV._What an Attendant Should First Learn._--The duties of an attendant upon the insane are varied, arduous, and exacting; they are associated with irritations, perplexities, and an...
13. CHAPTER III.Every person has individual characteristics. As no two faces are alike, so the mind, character, and manner of no two are alike, and it is by the manifestation of these, that eac...
16. CHAPTER VI.A careful study of each violent patient, of his habits, delusions, and hallucinations, of his peculiar manner of showing violence, and a knowledge of what is likely to provoke o...
17. CHAPTER VII.Patients with Delusions of Suspicion demand special care, and are properly classed with those inclined to commit acts of violence, because they are frequently fully under the co...
12. CHAPTER II.We know there is something we call mind, because we know something of its way of working, or its faculties. What mind is we do not know, but we know it is not matter, because ma...
11. CHAPTER I.The brain is a body weighing about forty ounces, and fills a cavity in the upper part of the skull. The spinal cord, commonly called spinal marrow, is directly connected with th...
4. CHAPTER IV.What an Attendant Should First Learn.--The Relation of Attendants to Patients.--The Character of an Attendant.-- Relation to the Institution.--How and What to Observe.-- Systema...
6. CHAPTER VI.Need of Studying Each Case.--Constant Attention and Oversight.--Value of Employment and Out-Door Exercise.-- Restriction and Idleness.--Paroxysms of Violence; How Cared For.--Ho...
9. CHAPTER IX.Certain Classes of Insane Liable to Injury.--Fractures.-- Wounds.--Bites.--Blows on the Head--Cut Throat.--Wounds of the Extremities with Hemorrhage.--Sprains.--Choking.-- Artif...
10. CHAPTER X.Administration and Effects of Medicine.--Opium, Chloral, Hyoscine, and Hyoscyamine; Doses, Effects, Poisoning, Treatment.--Stimulants.--Applications of Heat and Cold.-- Baths an...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Care in the Earlier Stages.--Insanity with Exhaustion.-- Symptoms of Danger.--Care of Dementia, Early Dementia, Chronic or Terminal Dementia.--Convalescence.--Relapse.-- Epileps...
1. CHAPTER I.Nerve Centres.--Brain and Spinal Cord.--The Nerves.--Nerve Cells and Fibres.--Motor and Sensory Nerves.--The Five Organs of Special Sense.--Nerve Impulses.--The Brain and Nervou...
3. CHAPTER III.5. CHAPTER V.2. CHAPTER II.7. CHAPTER VII.