Mental diseasesA text-book of psychiatry for medical students and practitioners . Fig. 51.—Abnormalities of the ear.(a) Adherent lobule ; (6) Darwinian tubercle. accompanied by psychic stigmata. It should be noted also,that many varieties of insanity are entirely free from degenera-tion at all. HsBmatoma Auris, Othsematoma, or the so-called InsaneEar, occasionally occurs in General Paralytics, Epileptics, andrestless cases generally, and is always due to injury of some has not such prognostic value as was once supposed. Itresults from defective nutritional changes in the ear cartilage,
Mental diseasesA text-book of psychiatry for medical students and practitioners . Fig. 51.—Abnormalities of the ear.(a) Adherent lobule ; (6) Darwinian tubercle. accompanied by psychic stigmata. It should be noted also,that many varieties of insanity are entirely free from degenera-tion at all. HsBmatoma Auris, Othsematoma, or the so-called InsaneEar, occasionally occurs in General Paralytics, Epileptics, andrestless cases generally, and is always due to injury of some has not such prognostic value as was once supposed. Itresults from defective nutritional changes in the ear cartilage,which loses its elastic fibres, and becomes cystic and hsemor-rhagic. The blood coagulates, and finally fibrotic contractionensues, leading to disfigurement of the ear if hsematoma occurs also in some normal individualsespecially in footballers and boxers. THE PATHOLOGY OF INSANITY 255 Trophic Disturbances.—Finall}^, disease of the cerebralcortex reflects itself in general failure of the metabolism andnutrition of the body. Loss of weight is frequent in acute
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