Nervous and mental diseases . we have melancholiasimplex, in others the hallucinatory variety; in some the agitation, in 804 MENTAL DISEASES. others stupor and catatonia. When, in any given case, the melancholicphase recurs again, it is prone to wear the same features as in the firstattack. Thus, mild depression or simple melancholia, melancholiaagitata, or melancholia attonita may reappear again and again as thecycle returns, with the same phase and character over and over this is true in the majority of cases of circular insanity, it is notalways so, for occasionally the recurrin
Nervous and mental diseases . we have melancholiasimplex, in others the hallucinatory variety; in some the agitation, in 804 MENTAL DISEASES. others stupor and catatonia. When, in any given case, the melancholicphase recurs again, it is prone to wear the same features as in the firstattack. Thus, mild depression or simple melancholia, melancholiaagitata, or melancholia attonita may reappear again and again as thecycle returns, with the same phase and character over and over this is true in the majority of cases of circular insanity, it is notalways so, for occasionally the recurring melancholia changes its type inthe various sequences. As intimated in the chapter on Melancholia,there is often a species of reactive exaltation in the convalescent stageof the disease, and occasionally this reaction becomes so accentuatedas to develop a maniacal condition, so that we have presented to us apicture very like that of an alternating insanity. Like the melancholic phase, the maniacal period of circular insanity. *?? ;--^
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