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Excerpt from Correlation of Sciences in the Investigation of Nervous and Mental Diseases: From the Pathological Institute of the New York State Hospitals
Hippocrates' hint as to the causal agency Of epilepsy in the italicised sentence is particularly interesting, for even today we have only begun to search out whether epileptic attacks may not be due to the action on the brain of some poison which escapes from the intestines into the blood in course Of disordered digestion. Hippocrates clearly points out too that disease Of the brain is accountable for insanity. Besides this he even classified insanity with such good sense into manias, melancholias and dementia, that in 90 per cent of the cases at the present day the self same classification is used.
Furthermore he believed that diseases of the brain were caused by bad humors And if the term bad humors be translated as poisons or toxic agents it is the scientific language which we have just begun to employ in explaining the cause of many forms of insanity.
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