General and Special Therapeutics of Mental Diseases and Psychical Disorders; Compiled and Edited According to Homaopathic Principles - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1857 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. GENERAL THERAPEUTIC REMARKS. I. PSYCHICAL AND DIETETIC TREATMENT. §37. Although we are firmly convinced and have arrived at the certain conclusion, by extensive personal experience and observation, that among the great number of psychical diseases and cases that occur, proportionally only a very few may be, shortened in their natural course, i. e., cured more rapidly without any pharmaceutical treatment, than nature unassisted would have accomplished: we at the same time do not by any means refuse to recognize on the other hand, the immense influence, which pure psychical remedies may have on the transformation of these diseases, and the rapidity with which sudden mental emotions as fright, joy, fear, anger, etc., often induce instantaneous cures, where the condition was the result of similar affections or excitement; indeed we are ever of opinion that without simultaneous suitable psychical treatment the cure in the majority of cases not only may be rendered more difficult, but even quite impossible. Therefore a word here on this part of the treatment. Among the remedies belonging to it, the separation of the patient from his relations and from society in general, stands first in the majority of writers, and certainly asserts its rights to this place not entirely without justice, although in many cases it is decidedly not indispensably necessary, but on the contrary often extremely prejudicial, inasmuch as frequently nothing contributes more to make a man, only partially so, perfectly insane, than the entrance into an asylum. Here in Paris, where the treatment of such patients in their dwellings, owing to the want of room and the crowding together of many persons in a confined space, so often offers insurmountable difficulties; people alas...