Nervous and mental diseases . atever either of seat or cause, it is rather wild speculation toassume the same pathology. 804 MENTAL DISEASES. If Kraepeliu had been content with enlarging the domain of circularinsanity by the inclusion in it of his mixed cases and all of ihe recurrenttypes of mania and melancholia that show a tendency to alternation ofphase, criticism would have been less. It at least has simplified diagnosis to include every possible maniacalor depressed psychosis under the one term, and it was a rather singularhesitancy to exclude involution melancholia (all the symptoms of w
Nervous and mental diseases . atever either of seat or cause, it is rather wild speculation toassume the same pathology. 804 MENTAL DISEASES. If Kraepeliu had been content with enlarging the domain of circularinsanity by the inclusion in it of his mixed cases and all of ihe recurrenttypes of mania and melancholia that show a tendency to alternation ofphase, criticism would have been less. It at least has simplified diagnosis to include every possible maniacalor depressed psychosis under the one term, and it was a rather singularhesitancy to exclude involution melancholia (all the symptoms of whichare often met with in younger individuals without involution) for solong a time; but the need of consistency seems to require includingthat under the general head at last. Probably there will be no more classification upheavals until we areable to classify de sedibus et causis morborum. Etiology of the Circular Type.—Heredity plays an especially sig-nificant part in the causation of circular insanity (60 per cent.). Xot.
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