OBSCURE DISEASES

OF THE

BRAIN AND MIN D.

BY

FORBES WINSLOW, M.D., D.C.L., Oxon.,

&c. &c. &c.

Second American from the Third and Rebised English Edition.

“O that way Madness lies; let me shun that.”

KING LEAR.

"Yf our leg or arm offend us, we cobet by all means possible to redress it ; and if we labor of a bodily disense, we send for a Physician; but, for the Diseases of the Mind, we take no notice of them."

BURTON'S “ ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.”

“Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur,

Cum mala per longas conbaluere moras."

Ovid.

SHERMAN & co., PRINTERS.

RCOOL W77 1566

This work is Dedicated

BY HIS FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR,

то

A. BRIERRE DE BOIS MONT, M.D.,

DE LA FACULTÉ DE PARIS,

CHEVALIER DES ORDRES DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR,
PRÉSIDENT DE LA SOCIÉTÉ MÉDICO-PSYCHOLOGIQUE,

ETC, ETC.

AS A MARK OF RESPECT FOR HIS PRIVATE CHARACTER,

DISTINGUISHED TALENTS, AND HIGH PROFESSIONAL ATTAINMENTS;

ALSO,

IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE EMINENT SERVICES HE HAS RENDERED TO

RESPECTING THE PHILOSOPHY OF INSANITY, AND THE TREATMENT OF THE

INSANE,

IN THE ABLE WORKS WITH WHICH HE HAS ENRICHED THE MEDICO

PSYCHOLOGICAL LITERATURE OF HIS COUNTRY.