Nervous and mental diseases . in which attacks of mania follow one another with perfectly normal butgenerally irregular intervals of days, months, weeks, or years. Theattacks themselves last from a few days to a few months. Usually theprodromal depressive stage is absent, the culmination rapid, and conva-lescence seldom marked by the interesting depressive affects of ordinarymania. The periodic attacks are very apt to be distinguished by thepresence of special symptoms, such as a reasoning tendency, tendenciesto impulsive acts, arson, stealing, assaults, sexual and alcoholic excesses,and to se
Nervous and mental diseases . in which attacks of mania follow one another with perfectly normal butgenerally irregular intervals of days, months, weeks, or years. Theattacks themselves last from a few days to a few months. Usually theprodromal depressive stage is absent, the culmination rapid, and conva-lescence seldom marked by the interesting depressive affects of ordinarymania. The periodic attacks are very apt to be distinguished by thepresence of special symptoms, such as a reasoning tendency, tendenciesto impulsive acts, arson, stealing, assaults, sexual and alcoholic excesses,and to severe headaches. The longer periodic mania endures, the lessdistinct become the normal features of the intervals. Recurrent maniaand intermittent mania are only other names for periodic mania. Variousetiological factors have in times past given rise to such designations asepileptic, alcoholic, morphin, puerperal, senile mania, etc., in some of 780 MENTAL DISEASES. which the maniacal excitementThus, the toxic deliria are genera.
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