Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . SIMPSON, Visiting Physician to the Hartford Hospital LCOHOLISM, or the clinical conditions, mentaland physical, which result from the excessive useof alcohol, is too large a subject for presentationin this paper. The alcoholic insanities, includingdelirium tremens and dipsomania, may be dis-missed at once with the remark that they consti-tute from fifteen to twenty per cent of all thecases of insanity admitted to our asylums. Likewise the organicalcoholic diseases, like alcoholic neuritis, alcohol
Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . SIMPSON, Visiting Physician to the Hartford Hospital LCOHOLISM, or the clinical conditions, mentaland physical, which result from the excessive useof alcohol, is too large a subject for presentationin this paper. The alcoholic insanities, includingdelirium tremens and dipsomania, may be dis-missed at once with the remark that they consti-tute from fifteen to twenty per cent of all thecases of insanity admitted to our asylums. Likewise the organicalcoholic diseases, like alcoholic neuritis, alcoholic cirrhosis of theliver, etc., must be omitted. Alcohol, however, produces a psycho-pathic disposition usually before it produces pronounced diseases ofbrain or body. On the other hand, a neuropathic or psychopathicdisposition often begets alcoholism. All hard drinkers show nerv-ous disturbances which may be to some extent inherited from alco-holic ancestors, and it is a well-known fact that children of alcoholicprogenitors are extremely liable to show physical and mental The Effects of Alcohol on the Physical Condition LET me from a clinical case describe to you the effects of alco-/ hoi upon a man before he has developed an actual insanity,or an organic disease. This man in ugly mood, under the influenceof drink, has just committed an assault which brought him into thepolice station. He sits in a chair untidy in appearance, restless,somewhat talkative, speech rather slow and a little thick, face flushed, 1 See note under The Next Article, on page 77.[79]
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