Handbook of insanity for practitioners and students . months,but may also terminate in a few hours or days. Whenthe disease terminates favorably, as is true of the majorityof cases, the face gains expression, the patient begins tospeak a few words and to perform a few movementsslowly; he grows cleanly at an early period. The nutri-tion improves and recovery gradually becomes memory of the period of disease is generally extinctor very imperfect. Recovery may be aided by good food, wine, beer, iron,etc. Careful attention to the skin, lukewarm baths, andkeeping the body warm in bed a
Handbook of insanity for practitioners and students . months,but may also terminate in a few hours or days. Whenthe disease terminates favorably, as is true of the majorityof cases, the face gains expression, the patient begins tospeak a few words and to perform a few movementsslowly; he grows cleanly at an early period. The nutri-tion improves and recovery gradually becomes memory of the period of disease is generally extinctor very imperfect. Recovery may be aided by good food, wine, beer, iron,etc. Careful attention to the skin, lukewarm baths, andkeeping the body warm in bed also act favorably. A rarer termination is that of permanent dementia, andthis is similar to that observed after other psychoses. Inthis event the grave turning-point will be recognized byincrease in the bodily weight while the other conditionsremain the same. It is not always easy, when the periodof observation is short, to distinguish it from severe mel-ancholia. But the consideration of the causes and the HANDBOOK OF INSANITY. KIRCHHCFF. Plate VI.
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