Mental medicine and nursing : for use in training-schools for nurses and in medical classes and a ready reference for the general practitioner . INSANITY 57 leads to more or less enfeeblement of mind,eventuating according to the degree in idiocyor imbecility (Fig. 15). (b) Puberty. This is the next developmentalperiod, a physiological one, during which the sexualfunction in both male and female makes its ap-pearance. There isnot only a physicaldevelopment, but amental growth alsoin the form of mentaldisease may cropout at this time oflife, although in-sanity is rare. If itarise
Mental medicine and nursing : for use in training-schools for nurses and in medical classes and a ready reference for the general practitioner . INSANITY 57 leads to more or less enfeeblement of mind,eventuating according to the degree in idiocyor imbecility (Fig. 15). (b) Puberty. This is the next developmentalperiod, a physiological one, during which the sexualfunction in both male and female makes its ap-pearance. There isnot only a physicaldevelopment, but amental growth alsoin the form of mentaldisease may cropout at this time oflife, although in-sanity is rare. If itarises it does sobecause there is inthe person a strongmorbid predisposi-tion to it. It usuallytakes the form ofa short maniacalattack, or a brief at-tack of melancholia. Puberty occurs between the ages of twelve andsixteen years. About two years later in the male;it approximately appears between the ages oftwelve and fourteen years in the female andbetween fourteen and sixteen in the male. (c) Adolescence. Adolescence is the period be-tween puberty and maturity. In the male it. Fig. 16.—Psychosis of adolescence in ayoung man. 58 MENTAL MEDICINE AND NURSING extends from the sixteenth to the twenty-fifthyear of age and in the female from the fourteenthto the twenty-first year (Fig. 16). It is the physiological period, which, begunin puberty, goes on to full development. Phys-ically the body attains its growth; and the mind by the end of theperiod has reachedpractically its normaldevelopment. Thisperiod is a very im-portant one to theyouth; many breakdown in it. (d) Maturity. Thiscomprises the periodbetween full mentaldevelopment and thedecline of life. As itis the longest period,embracing as it doesthe most active physi-cal and mental opera-tions of life, it neces-sarily calls for all ofthe powers of endurance of the individual. (e) Climacteric. The climacteric period marksthe so-called change of life (Fig. 17). As we havealready seen, the period of life at which thesexual function
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