A History Of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, Ecstasy, Magnetism, And Somnambulism | by A. Brierre De Boismont
A philosophical physician said, in speaking of the first edition of this work: "If the author had been satisfied to treat the vast question of hallucinations as medical men usually treat a question of pathology, the medical press would have announced his monograph according to custom, with simple praises and very inoffensive criticisms; medical science would have numbered one more good work, and so the matter would have ended. But such has not been the case. M. Brierre de Boismont, in giving a less scholastic turn to his treatise, and introducing questions of historic psychology, has succeeded in electrifying both the press and the public...
| Title | A History Of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, Ecstasy, Magnetism, And Somnambulism |
| Author | A. Brierre De Boismont |
| Publisher | Lindsay And Blakiston |
| Year | 1855 |
| Copyright | 1855, Lindsay And Blakiston |
| Amazon | History of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, Ecstasy, Magnetism and Somnambulism |
"Strange if the power of dreams! who has not felt, When in the morning light such visions melt, How the relied soul, though straggling to be free. Ruled by that deep, unfathomed mystery, Wakes, haunted by the thoughts of good or ill, Whose shading influence pursues us still?"
Mrs. Norton's Dream
Translator's Preface- The highly interesting subjects discussed in this volume, written by a very distinguished French physician, have seemed to demand a careful translation, in order that its usefulness may be more genera...
- Preface
- A philosophical physician said, in speaking of the first edition of this work: If the author had been satisfied to treat the vast question of hallucinations as medical men usually treat a question of...
- Preface. Continued
- Does not the view of great minds contending with madness, and which offer a constant subject for meditation, induce a ceaseless examination of those high spiritual questions which are declared useless...
- On Hallucinations
- Introduction At every epoch in the history of man - in the most opposite latitudes - under the most diverse governments - among all religions - we constantly find the same belief in ghosts and appari...
- On Hallucinations. Part 2
- The sensible signs which form the exclusive materials for hallucinations, everything that exerts a powerful impression on the mind, can, under certain circumstances, produce an image, a sound, a smell...
- On Hallucinations. Part 3
- But whilst we have established for profane history the fact that there are hallucinations compatible with reason, that there are others aggravated by insanity, resulting from an unhealthy organization...
- On Hallucinations. Part 4
- The fourth section also includes hallucinations that accompany mania; they are often associated with illusions, or alternate with them. Their frequency is almost as great as in monomania, but it is of...
- On Hallucinations. Part 5
- Above all, the object of our argument is to prove that these noted personages were the personifications of an epoch, an idea; that they fulfilled a useful and necessary mission; and that their halluci...
- Chapter I. Definition And Division Of Hallucinations
- Importance of the study of hallucinations - Definition of authors - Outline of the principal classifications - Character of the one presented by the author. The psychological history of man does not ...
- Definition And Division Of Hallucinations. Part 2
- Between sensation and conception, says M. Leuret, there exists an intermediate phenomenon, that practitioners call hallucination. Hallucination resembles sensation, inasmuch as, like sensation, it giv...
- Definition And Division Of Hallucinations. Part 3
- M. Aubanel, who makes but one class of hallucinations and illusions, has proposed the following division: - 1. The hallucinated are fully aware of the phenomena they experience; they attribute it the...
- Chapter II. Hallucinations Consistent With Reason
- Influence of reverie in the production of hallucinations - Distinctions to be established - On the reverie of Orientals - Belief in the supernatural - 1. Recognized, spontaneous, ephemeral, and ...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Continued
- I am persuaded that devotees, lovers, prophets, Illuminati, and Swedenborgians, owe all the wonders of their presentiments, their visions, their prophecies, their conversations with celestial intelli...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 2
- Case I A painter who inherited much of the patronage of the celebrated Sir Joshua Reynolds, and believed himself to possess a talent superior to his, was so fully engaged, that he told me, said Wig...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 3
- Case III Bottex relates that a man employed in a brew-house in Strasburg, having gone to Saint Etienne, inhabited the latter town for about two months, when he one night heard something walk round hi...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 4
- Case VI We owe to a very eminent physician of acknowledged reputation, and intimate with Sir Walter Scott, the recital of a fact that occurred to a well-known personage, which is, without contradicti...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 5
- Case VII During the latter six months of the year 1790, that academician relates, I had endured griefs that most deeply affected me. Dr. Selle, who was accustomed to bleed me twice a year, had de...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 6
- Case VIII On the 26th of December, 1830, says Sir D. Brewster,* Mrs. A. was seated near the fire in her parlor, and was about going up stairs to dress, when she heard the voice of her husband, wh...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 7
- Case X We can match this with a case given by Bostock. Oppressed, relates this English physiologist, by a fever that had reduced me to a state of great weakness, I also suffered from a violent hea...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 8
- Case XI I was attacked,' says this physician, with the influenza, and my brethren having decided that it was necessary to bleed me, they took from me three basins of blood. A quarter of an hour aft...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 9
- Case XIV Ben Jonson, who had a tenacious memory, and a brilliant imagination, experienced occasionally these false impressions. He told Drammond that he had passed a whole night. in watching his grea...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 10
- Case XVI In 1806, General Rapp, on his return from the siege of Dantzic, desiring to speak with the Emperor, entered the cabinet unannounced. He found him in so deep a reverie that his entrance was u...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 11
- Case XVIII The following curious details may be found in the Biography of Charles John Bernadotte, published in a Pan journal, the town where the late King of Sweden was born. . . . There exist sin...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 12
- Case XIX M. de Chateaubriand relates, in his Life of M. de Rance, that, as that celebrated man was walking down the avenue of his chateau of Veretz, he thought he saw the buildings, in the lower cour...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 13
- Case XXII Oliver Cromwell was stretched fatigued and sleepless on his bed. Suddenly the curtains opened, and a woman of gigantic size appeared, and told him that he would be the greatest man in Engla...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 14
- Case XXIV In 1647, writes Bovet, I was, together with several estimable persons, in the house of a gentleman in the west, which had formerly been a convent for females. The servants, and some of t...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 15
- Case XXV One day, in the year 1652, Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield, saw something white, like a spread sheet, about a yard from the head of his bed. He attempted to seize it, but it slid away t...
- Hallucinations Consistent With Reason. Part 16
- Case XXVII The famous Bodin, in his book De la Demono-logie des SorcierBy relates the following: I have heard of a person, still living, who has a spirit constantly attending him, and with whom he w...
- Chapter III. Hallucinations Op Insanity In Its Simple State
- Section I. - Simple isolated hallucinations - Their action on the mind - Profound conviction of the hallucinated - Loss of the senses no obstacle to hallucinations - Cases; - Of hallucination of heari...
- Sect. I. - Simple, Isolated Hallucinations
- Reason, hitherto intact, is about to yield to the influence of insanity; deserting the reins which she had so long held with a firm grasp, she is about to give way to error, whose caprices and decrees...
- Simple, Isolated Hallucinations. Part 2
- Case XXIX The patient who is the subject of this case had shown much talent in the public office to which he was attached; but, overpowered with his fixed idea, he ceased to acquit himself of his dut...
- Simple, Isolated Hallucinations. Part 3
- Case XXXI M. N., forty years of age, was suffering much domestic affliction. Like many others, he sought to drown his sorrows in wine. Several months before his disease, he became restless and strang...
- Simple, Isolated Hallucinations. Part 4
- Case XXXII The amiable and learned Harrington, author of the Oceana, spoke very sensibly on every subject but that connected with his malady. When on this subject, he related, with the most lively fa...
- Simple, Isolated Hallucinations. Part 5
- Case XXXIV An insane patient saw, on the right hand, against the wall of his cell, charming women, to whom he addressed by turns insults and compliments. This man was blind. After his death, M. Calme...
- Simple, Isolated Hallucinations. Part 6
- Case XXXVI A gentleman, aged thirty-five, active, and in good health, living near London, had for five weeks complained of a slight headache. He was rather feverish, and neglected his avocations and ...
- Simple, Isolated Hallucinations. Part 7
- Case XXXVII R. was born of parents without fortune; his education was far from being religious. At fourteen, he might have obtained favors from a young girl, but denied himself on thinking of God. In...
- Simple, Isolated Hallucinations. Part 8
- Case XXXVIII Mathews, whose curious case Haslam has described in a pamphlet, believed himself the victim of a troop of wretches, living in an obscure place near London. These persecutors, by their ta...
- Sect. II. - General Hallucinations
- Hallucinations of all the senses combined appear rare. Hallucinations of hearing and of sight have often been confounded with the illusions of touch, of taste, and of smell. Analogy and reasoning, how...
- General Hallucinations. Continued
- Case XL A rich man lived alone in a large house that belonged to him. His style of living was not at all suitable to the fortune that he was known to possess. He dressed almost in rags, and lived in ...
- Chapter IV. On Hallucinations As Connected With Illusions
- Frequency of illusions - Opinions relative to the errors of the senses - Characteristics by which illusions and hallucinations are distinguished - Opinions of MM. Calmeil, Aubanel, and Deohambre; thei...
- On Hallucinations As Connected With Illusions. Part 2
- Case XLI During the voyage, the cook of the vessel died. Some days after his funeral, the second mate ran to the captain in a great fright, to tell him that the cook was walking ahead of the vessel, ...
- On Hallucinations As Connected With Illusions. Part 3
- Case XLII Dr. Martin, Superintendent of Antiquaille, communicated the following fact to M. Bottex: A man, fifty-two years of age, of a plethoric constitution, after having experienced a defect in the...
- On Hallucinations As Connected With Illusions. Part 4
- Case XLV M. C, after a mental aberration, from which he has not quite recovered, returns to his family. The day after his arrival, he goes down to the cellar, followed by his wife. As he does not ret...
- On Hallucinations As Connected With Illusions. Part 5
- Case XLVII Madame R., aged forty-nine, small in person, brown, lean, lymphatic, sanguine, leading a very regular life, and extremely parsimonious, lost, through a relative, a considerable sum of mone...
- Chapter V. Hallucinations Arranged In The Order Of Their Frequency
- The varieties of monomania with which they most generally unite - Observation* on lypemania - Hallucinations are a reflex of the habits of the insane - Observations on demonology of the incubus - Natu...
- Hallucinations Arranged In The Order Of Their Frequency. Part 2
- Case XLIX Madame L., whose misfortunes and heroic devotion have made her name forever celebrated, became insane in consequence of very severe moral emotions. The commencement of her malady was charac...
- Hallucinations Arranged In The Order Of Their Frequency. Part 3
- Case LI Madame C, a foreigner, forty-eight years of age, was always lively and impressible. Educated amidst the most superstitious practices, and very ignorant, according to the usage of her country,...
- Hallucinations Arranged In The Order Of Their Frequency. Part 4
- Case LII There was, at Nantes, an unhappy woman who was tormented with a certain devil full of effrontery; this demon had appeared to her under a very handsome figure. Concealing his vile intentions,...
- Hallucinations Arranged In The Order Of Their Frequency. Part 5
- Case LIII Jeanne Harvilliers, a native of Verberie, near Compeigne, accused of homicide and witchcraft, was brought before the magistrate. She confessed that, at her birth, her mother had offered her...
- Hallucinations Arranged In The Order Of Their Frequency. Part 6
- Case LV Madame B. is convinced that she is about to marry a noble and powerful man, who has all her sympathies. Preoccupied with this idea, she thinks nothing of her real husband. She tells me that s...
- Chapter VI. On Hallucinations In Stupor
- The greater number of persons affected with stupor have hallucinations and illusions - Symptomatology - Arrangement of hallucinations and illusions in some patients - Cases of stupor - Remarks on this...
- On Hallucinations In Stupor. Continued
- Case LVIII - Mademoiselle R., aged thirty, a religious novice, entered the Salpetrifere on the 12th of July, 1842, under the care of M. Mitivie. On his visit, he found the patient in the following st...
- Chapter VII. On Hallucinations In Mania
- On the frequency of hallucinations in mania - Why? - Abstract of hallucinations ' in mania - Cases - Observations on the inclination to steal - Progress of hallucinations - Hallucinations may be sympt...
- On Hallucinations In Mania. Part 2
- This frightful scene lasted for four hours. Flight was impossible, for he had taken care to close all the doors; besides which, he was too strong for me. At length the crisis arrived: 'I must kill yo...
- On Hallucinations In Mania. Part 3
- Case LXI Mademoiselle 0. had been remarkable for her excellent judgment, so much so as to be constantly consulted by her friends. This fact, which was attested by a number of persons very capable of ...
- Chapter VIII. Of Hallucinations In Dementia
- Section I. - Hallucinations more frequent in dementia than is generally supposed - To what may the fact be attributed - Division of dementia into monomaniac and maniac, complete and senile - Abstract ...
- Sect. I. - Of Hallucinations In Dementia
- If the meaning of the word dementia were restricted to the definition at present generally accorded to it, it is certain that the insane comprised in this category would rarely exhibit the phenomena o...
- Of Hallucinations In Dementia. Part 2
- Case LXIII M. B., a well-known artist, and one who has acquired a well-merited celebrity, has for fifteen years been subject to a maniacal delirium which has passed into dementia. Frequently set at l...
- Of Hallucinations In Dementia. Part 3
- Case LXV - M. C, sixty-three years of age, had always a weak intellect, but was often obstinate. His children were obliged to leave him. Having reached the last stage of dementia, no longer recognizi...
- Sect. II. - Of Hallucinations In Dementia, With General Paralysis
- It may appear somewhat singular, at the first glance, that the most serious kind of lunacy may be combined with hallucinations and illusions. In fact, how can we believe that a stuttering man, without...
- Of Hallucinations In Dementia, With General Paralysis. Continued
- Case LXVIII - M. B., paralytic and insane for four years, had apparently lost the power of speech. From time to time, he would utter hoarse cries and inarticulate sounds; then would keep silent for f...
- Sect. III. - Of Hallucinations Viewed In Relation To Imbecility, Idiotism, And Cretinism
- It is essential for the production of hallucinations that certain faculties, amongst which imagination holds an important place, should be brought into play. But when these faculties are entirely exti...
- Chapter IX. Of Hallucinations In Delirium Tremens
- Approximative statistics of cases of insanity, from the abuse of intoxicating drink - The illusions and hallucinations to which inebriates are subject - Cases - Nature of the hallucinations - They may...
- Of Hallucinations In Delirium Tremens. Continued
- Case LXIX - M., twenty-seven years of age, short and stoat, of a lymphatic temperament, had contracted, under the influence of his trade, the habit of drinking a considerable quantity of brandy. Thre...
- Chapter X. Of Hallucinations In Nervous Diseases
- Hallucinations in catalepsy, epilepsy, hysteria, hypochondria, chorea, rage, etc. - Recapitulation. We have now considered hallucinations in the grand divisions of insanity. This section is the mos...
- Of Hallucinations In Nervous Diseases. Part 2
- Case LXXL M. L. was attacked ten years since with a melancholy monomania, in which he believed himself exposed to the persecutions of bitter enemies. He frequently heard them make impure observations...
- Of Hallucinations In Nervous Diseases. Part 3
- Case LXXIII Madame C. has, for several years, been subject to attacks of hysteria; at their approach, she becomes timid, and fearful, until her terrors augment to such a degree that she continually c...
- Of Hallucinations In Nervous Diseases. Part 4
- Case LXXV M. de L. has been distressed, for twenty years, with the notion that he has an acute disease in the stomach and bowels, which, however, does not prevent him from eating of everything with a...
- Chapter XI. Of Hallucinations In Nightmare And Dreams
- Section I. - Hallucinations in nightmare - Its analogy to madness - Varieties of nightmare - Its coexistence with reason and with insanity. Section II. - Hallucinations in dreams - Analogy between dr...
- Sect. I. - Of Hallucinations In Nightmare
- Whosoever has carefully studied nervous diseases, can have no doubt as to the analogy of nightmare and madness; the curious facts that we have witnessed, leave no uncertainty on the subject. A disting...
- Of Hallucinations In Nightmare. Part 2
- Case LXXVIII In a convent in Auvergne, an apothecary was sleeping with several persons; being attacked with nightmare, he charged his companions with throwing themselves on him, and attempting to str...
- Of Hallucinations In Nightmare. Part 3
- Case LXXXI The first battalion of the regiment of Latour d'Auvergne, in which I was first surgeon, says Dr. Parent, when in garrison at Palmi, in Calabria, received orders to leave the place at mi...
- Sect. II. - Hallucinations In Dreams
- The analogies which exist between hallucinations in dreams and in a waking condition, have induced writers who look on hallucination as a pathological phenomenon, to place the two in the same category...
- Hallucinations In Dreams. Part 2
- Case LXXXIL A friend of mine, says Abercrombie, 'employed as cashier in one of the principal banking-houses in Glasgow, was at his desk, when an individual entered, requiring;he payment of six poun...
- Hallucinations In Dreams. Part 3
- Case LXXXIV We read, in a work by Ferriar, an anecdote borrowed from Ben Jonson, who had extracted it from a work by Drummond.* This author relates that when King James came to England, at the time o...
- Hallucinations In Dreams. Part 4
- Case LXXXVI The best proof, my friend, that I can give you of the vanity of dreams, is that I live after the apparition which I had on the 22d of September, 1679. - On that morning I awoke at five o...
- Hallucinations In Dreams. Part 5
- Case LXXXVIII One day, in presence of the old minister, the conversation was directed to those instantaneous warnings which might be considered as communications from the invisible world with man; so...
- Hallucinations In Dreams. Part 6
- Case LXXXIX - The Prince de Radzwil had adopted an orphan niece. He inhabited a chateau in Galicia, in which was a very large room which separated the apartments of the prince from those occupied by ...
- Hallucinations In Dreams. Part 7
- Case XC Examples of persons who have composed in dreams, are not of uncommon occurrence. One of the most remarkable cases of this nature, is that to which we owe the famous sonata by Tartini, called ...
- Hallucinations In Dreams. Part 8
- Case XCI A learned man, who was deeply engaged in reading Plato, said that one night, in his own house, and before going to sleep, he saw a philosopher, whom he knew intimately, come to him, and expo...
- Hallucinations In Dreams. Part 9
- Case XCIII The following details were communicated by a minister worthy of belief to the Editors of the Magasin Psy-chologique. The lady, to whom they relate, reasoned well on every subject but that ...
- Hallucinations In Dreams. Part 10
- Case XCIV A foreign lady, aged forty, was several years ago brought to our establishment. All the information that we could gain relative to her, was limited to the fact that for twenty years she had...
- Chapter XII. Of Hallucinations In Ecstasy, Magnetism, And Somnambulism
- Section I. - Ecstasy is Tory favorable to hallucinations - Case - Religious ecstasies - Times and circumstances favorable to ecstasies - Physiological ecstasy-Morbid ecstasy - This division allows the...
- Sect. I. - Of Hallucinations In Ecstasy
- All who have written on this subject are agreed on one point, namely, that those only whose habitual feelings and ideas are elevated above the standard of ordinary intellectual life, come under its in...
- Of Hallucinations In Ecstasy. Part 2
- Case XCVI The visions of Jean Engelbrecht bear a close resemblance to those of Swedenborg. After passing many years in a frightful state of suffering and melancholy, which had frequently tempted him ...
- Of Hallucinations In Ecstasy. Part 3
- Case XCVII An uneducated woman in low life, aged twenty-four years, went sometimes to church, and always listened with most attention to the Holy Word when it revealed our true condition, and spoke o...
- Of Hallucinations In Ecstasy. Part 3. Continued
- After a few minutes had passed, some movements of the patient were observed, the object of which was evidently to throw off the coverings to the foot of the bed. She is going to rise, said her mothe...
- Of Hallucinations In Ecstasy. Part 4
- Case XCIX Jeanne de Rochet, a young lady of the court of Louis the Fourteenth, who retired into solitude, in order, through the means of extreme privation, to reach perfection, has related, in a work...
- Of Hallucinations In Ecstasy. Part 4. Part 2
- Sighs, breathed with difficulty, announce that the oppression augments. Her eyes, more and more fixed and immovable, shed large drops of tears that fall slowly down her cheeks. Nervous spasms occur; ...
- Of Hallucinations In Ecstasy. Part 4. Part 3
- We will not give the recital, by M. Edmond Cazales on Dominica Lazzari, the Patiente de Capriana, because the case, however extraordinary, bears no direct relation to our subject. Great joy, like gre...
- Sect. II. - Of Hallucinations In Magnetism And Somnambulism
- A very extraordinary nervous condition is acquired when man is deprived of the action of the senses, by isolating him completely from the outer world, concentrating his mind on himself, whilst he subm...
- Of Hallucinations In Magnetism And Somnambulism. Part 2
- Case CII St. Ambrose was apprised of the death of Saint Martin at Tours (in the year A. D. 400), in the church at Milan, during the mass. It was customary for the reader to present himself before th...
- Of Hallucinations In Magnetism And Somnambulism. Part 2. Part 2
- * Simond Sismondi, Hist. Ital., torn. xii. p. 67; Vita di Savonarola, liv. i. ix. xv. p. 19. M6moire de Philippe de Commines, lib. viii. ch. iii. p. 270, et ch. xxxvi. p. 443. Biogr....
- Of Hallucinations In Magnetism And Somnambulism. Part 2. Part 3
- Everybody was whispering: 'You see he is mad, for he was perfectly serious. It is easy to see that he is joking, and he always introduces the marvellous into his jests.' ' Yes,' replied Chamfort, 'bu...
- Of Hallucinations In Magnetism And Somnambulism. Part 2. Part 4
- All phenomena that depart from common laws should be subjected to severe examination, and rejected when they do not present evidences of truth; but when their occurrence is guaranteed by men of intell...
- Of Hallucinations In Magnetism And Somnambulism. Part 3
- Case CIV A highly respectable man, who had long been in command of a large merchant ship, related the following to Sir Walter Scott, which occurred whilst he was in the Tagus. One of his crew was ass...
- Of Hallucinations In Magnetism And Somnambulism. Part 4
- Case CV Some years ago, says Abercrombie, I attended a young lady subject to an affection of this character, which always took place during the day, and which lasted from ten minutes to one hour. ...
- Of Hallucinations In Magnetism And Somnambulism. Part 5
- Case CVIII Madame Plantin, about 64 years of age, consulted, in the month of June, 1828, a somnambulist, who was introduced to her by Dr. Chapelain, and by whom she was informed that a tumor would fo...
- Of Hallucinations In Magnetism And Somnambulism. Part 6
- Case CIX A magistrate, and counsellor in a royal court, related to me the following anecdote: His wife had an attendant who was in very delicate health. She magnetized her, and put her into a state o...
- Chapter XIII. Of Hallucinations In Febrile, Inflammatory, Acute, Chronic, And Other Maladies
- Of hallucinations and illusions in acute delirium and brain diseases - Congestion, arachnites, encephalites, softening of the brain, cerebro-spinal meningitis, etc. - Of hallucinations in fever; effec...
- Sect. I. - Of Hallucinations In Acute Delirium And Diseases Of The Brain
- Acute delirium, called by some acute insanity,* was long confounded with cerebral inflammations. We, in accordance with M. Lelut, have separated it from this group of diseases, and we are thus ...
- Sect. II.- Of Hallucinations In Inflammatory Diseases, And In Several Other Affections
- Works on internal pathology contain a multitude of cases which allow of no doubt of the existence of hallucinations in ephemeral and severe fevers, inflammations of the organs in various other disease...
- Of Hallucinations In Inflammatory Diseases, And In Several Other Affections. Part 2
- Case CXII Some months ago, says the author,I attended M. R., who had been attacked, during a voyage from America, with violent headache. He was relieved by the formation of an abscess beneath the ...
- Of Hallucinations In Inflammatory Diseases, And Other Affections. Part 3
- Case CXIII I attended, says Abercrombie, a very intelligent man, who had been sick for some time with a slight fever. Although his reason was unimpaired, he was subject to a frequent hallucination...
- Of Hallucinations In Inflammatory Diseases, And Other Affections. Part 3. Continued
- The appearance of phantoms in severe fevers were observed by the ancients. How many deliriums, says Hippocrates, occur in ataxical and adynamic fevers, accompanied by frightful spectres, which announc...
- Of Hallucinations In Inflammatory Diseases, And Other Affections. Part 4
- Case CXV About twelve years ago, says the author, I had an attack of fever, brought on by a violent inflammation of the left lung, from a cold taken in the great thaw of 1795. The pulse beat 110 i...
- Of Hallucinations In Inflammatory Diseases, And Other Affections. Part 5
- Case CXVI A gentleman of Carlsruhe, in Silesia, forty years of age, sound in mind, of mature judgment, and entirely free from superstition, enjoyed habitual good health, excepting that he was subject...
- Of Hallucinations In Inflammatory Diseases, And Other Affections. Part 6
- Case CXVIII Lieutenant-General Thiebault, a man equally distinguished for wit and military talents, was, at the close of an inflammatory fever that had weakened him considerably, assailed by visions;...
- Of Hallucinations In Inflammatory Diseases, And Other Affections. Part 7
- Case CXX A lady, says Abercrombie, whom I attended some years since for an inflammation of the lungs, woke her husband one night, at the commencement of her disease, and begged him to rise instant...
- Chapter XIV. Causes Of Hallucinations
- Etiology of hallucinations and illusions - It should be sought in the psychical and corporeal elements of man, and above all in ideas, in hallucinations of long standing, single and compatible with re...
- Division I. - Moral Causes Of Hallucinations
- Hallucinations appearing with mental diseases, of which they are signs, the complication, development, termination, epiphenomena, etc., a priori, the division into moral and physical causes should be ...
- Moral Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 2
- Case CXXIV Ferriar gives the case of a gentleman, who, losing his way whilst travelling in Scotland, demanded hospitality in a little solitary cottage. The hostess remarked, with a mysterious kind of...
- Moral Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 2. Part 2
- Education, whose all-powerful action in the production of oppressive ideas we have already mentioned as being a fruitful source of physical and moral disease, may, says M. Cerise, impart single but fa...
- Moral Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 2. Part 3
- In order to comprehend any particular epoeh, says the author of an able article in the British Review, it is necessary to have an exact picture of the opinions and manners of the time. Cer...
- Moral Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 3
- Case CXXV In the autumn of the year XII., a man, by trade a mason, fell into a state of melancholy, without any apparent cause. One night he had strange visions, and before morning had escaped into t...
- Moral Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 4
- Case CXXVI The first wife of Charles Lee died in giving birth to a little girl. Lady Everard, a sister of the deceased, undertook to bring up and educate the child, a task which she faithfully perfor...
- Moral Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 5
- Case CXXVII M. Bezuel, a young student, fifteen years of age, contracted an intimacy with another young man, named Desfontaines. Having talked over the compacts entered into between persons who promi...
- Moral Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 6
- Case CXXVIII Colonel Gardiner had passed the evening amongst his gay companions. He had made an appointment precisely at midnight with a married woman. The company separated at eleven, and he, not wi...
- Moral Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 6. Continued
- The barbarians did not only bring with them devastation and death; they inculcated their religions creeds into all minds. The Roman people heard for the first time of Himenberg, that celestial city wh...
- Moral Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 7
- Case CXXX A clerk in a house of business discovered that the warehouse had been robbed; he fell into a state of deep despair, then exclaimed that he was sought for; he saw the gendarmes surround the ...
- Moral Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 8
- Case CXXXIII In 1623 or 1624, a man named Fletcher, a considerable land-owner, of Rascal, a town in Yorkshire, married a young woman who had formerly been on terms of intimacy with Ralph Raynal, an i...
- Moral Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 9
- Case CXXXV In October, 1833, a woman, aged twenty-eight, born in Piedmont, went to a village-ball; she danced during three days in a sort of frenzy, and afterwards heard, without cessation, the melod...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations
- The enumeration of the moral causes which occasion hallucinations has sufficiently proved that exclusive ideas, strong passions, and great preoccupations, may lead to this result. To record other case...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 2
- Case CXXXVII About twelve years ago we saw, in the City Asylum, a young lady of seven years of age, whose mother and grandmother were insane, and had hallucinations. This child had a most intelligent...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 3
- Case CXL When very young, I was sent to a town seven leagues distant from my native place. My father's object was to wean me from home, and to have me taught to write. Five or six months afterwards...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 3. Part 2
- There is no doubt of the influence of climate on hallucinations. The European character is neither that of the Asiatic nor the African. Their expression of countenance, actions, and temperaments diffe...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 3. Part 3
- The same phenomenon may be observed on ascending into the air. La Gazette de Mons has published, in relation to a balloon ascension by Mr. Green, some extracts from a report that Dr. B. addressed to ...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 4
- Case CXLI The first thing which caused me to remark a notable change in myself, was the return of those visions to which childhood alone, or a high state of irritability, is subject. At night, when ...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 5
- Case CXLII This physician relates the following: An English ambassador, recently sent to India, was conducted, on his arrival at the palace of the sovereign, through a suite of decorated apartments, ...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 6
- Case CXLIV At eleven o'clock three persons had taken the liquid, namely, Messrs. A. K., a celebrated novelist, of a very powerful organization, D., an advocate, one of the best scholars of the Univer...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 6. Part 2
- The pulse lowers; it is softer, and beats but 90 in the minute. The delirium continues; water is given to him; he exclaims: That will make the frogs come, who will drink up the liquor. Incoherent se...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 6. Part 3
- The first stage drew towards its termination. After some minutes I recovered my calmness, without headache, or any of the symptoms which accompany the use of wine, and feeling very much astonished at...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 7
- Case CXLV Some years since, a musical composer, under the distress occasioned by domestic griefs, attempted suicide. For this purpose, he took a strong dose of datura. The effect of this poison was e...
- Second Division. - Physical Causes Of Hallucinations. Part 7. Continued
- This hallucination may be compared with those experienced by women they precede the development of insanity, so that they may be considered as causes; but in a great number of cases, appear devoted to...
- Chapter XV. On Hallucinations Considered In A Psychological, Historical, And Religious Point Of View
- Difference of the psychology of hallucinations, as dependent on soundness of mind or insanity - Incitements to madness - Introduction of physiology into history - The philosophy of history contrary to...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 2
- Amongst other objections which have been addressed to me, it has been said: You have not decided whether hallucination is or is not a disease. A phenomenon either is or is not normal. There is in hal...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 3
- We have never attempted to deny the action which a sickly condition of the organs exerts over the will; and, on this subject, we think with M. Cerise, that they may be influenced by a fit of the splee...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 4
- * Revue des Deux Mondes. Du Mouvoment Catholique, par M. Louan-dre, Nov. et Dec. 1843. I questioned on the subject, says one writer, replied: 'I can tell them to come, and they come; but they come ...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 5
- Case CXLVI When I was at school, says Dr. Rush, in Cecil County, Maryland, I often went, on holidays, with my companions, to visit an eagle's nest, which was placed on the summit of a dead tree. T...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 6
- *M. l'Abbe Forrichon, Le Materialism et la Phrenologie combattues dans lean fondemens, pp. 240, 243, Paris, 1840. When external and internal sensations reach the brain in a normal state, we are uncon...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 7
- The power of reproducing hallucinations by an effort of the will has been described by numerous observers. * Conolly, p. 119, op. cit. On this subject, Jerome Cardan thus expresses himself: Video q...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 8
- Case CXLVII Brutus was about to move with his whole army. One dark night, having only a small lamp in his tent, which gave but a feeble light, his whole army being wrapped in silence and sleep, he w...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 9
- Case CXLVIII A young lady, twenty-three years of age, of a cultivated mind, an agreeable countenance, and apparently of a good constitution, confided to us, one day, with much grief and anxiety, that...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 10
- We have endeavored, as much as possible, to estimate the psychological phenomena which unite to produce hallucination. If this study has made the same impression on the mind of the reader as it has on...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 11
- On the day on which Saladin entered the holy city, says Rigord, the monks of Argenteuil had seen the moon descend to the earth, and return again into heaven. In several churches the crucifix and i...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 12
- * A. Brierre de Boismont, De la Dualite humaine (Union Medicale). 1851. We may affirm, without fear of being mistaken, that there is no man of genius who has not experienced this temptation. It is be...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 13
- Luther himself has given a denial to Claude; for, in his treatise on Missa Privata, in which the vision is described, after having exalted the power of Satan, who will never allow long conferences, he...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 14
- Thus, on the one hand, irreproachable conduct, exemplary goodness, and sound reason; but on the other, as was the case with many renowned personages, visions and revelations. We will first state the f...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 15
- * Buchon, Analyse raisonie des documents sur la Pacello, p. 196-198. The violent manner in which our doctrine of the coexistence of hallucinations with reason has been attacked, makes it but fair on ...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 16
- If facts were not already too numerous, we would repeat here the account of St. Genevieve, to whose vision may be attributed the salvation of Paris. We should read the account of that saint, in the in...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 17
- At the sight of such works, and such great results, obtained by such superior minds, who will persist in comparing their hallucinations with those of the individuals who come under our daily notice? ...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 18
- * Amulette de Pascal, p. 145. In presence of this doctrine, so humiliating and so distressing to humanity, have we not reason to ask, in the words of a late writer: What, then, is that sorrowful sid...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 19
- Let us recollect the state of the world on the advent of Jesus Christ. Paganism was universal. Mankind, penned up like wild flocks, existed only by the will of their masters. Families were not constit...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 20
- Thus, if we have been at one period believing, and at others skeptical, we have only imitated the great doctors of orthodoxy. We must not, however, lose sight of the fact, that the visions of the prop...
- On Hallucinations In Psychological, Historical, Religious Point Of View. Part 21
- The division of ideas into spiritual and sensual is important in our theory, because we believe the second alone form the material for hallucinations, and that, if the first appear to participate in t...
- Chapter XVI. Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions
- Of psychical and psycho-sensorial hallucinations - The interposition of the senses - Intellectual and sensorial phenomena of hallucinations of sight and hearing - Statistics - Double-sighted hallucina...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 2
- We have never been able to discover clearly, notwithstanding the great authority of Muller and Burdach, the alleged intervention of the senses in hallucinations. According to the former, visions are ...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 3
- Hallucinations appear sometimes to affect strange forms; but on careful examination, their elements are found to have been imbibed from books, pictures, traditions, etc. Thus, in the Middle Ages, the ...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 4
- When hallucinations of hearing take place in those who speak several languages, the voices are more distinct in those with which they are most familiar; and become more confused if the foreign languag...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 5
- Mons. Michea has given to this phenomenon the title of double hallucination (hallucination dedoublee). It is not easily discovered but in the senses of touch, sight, and hearing. We will relate some i...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 6
- * Annales Medico-Psycho., t. iv. p. 34. Histoire (Tun Fou gueri deux fois malgre les Medecins et une fois sans eux. All ideas and preoccupations may be transformed into hallucinations; and, ...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 7
- Visual creations undergo motions, changes of dimension, and transformations of form. Thus objects which appear fixed, begin to move and increase indefinitely, until they vanish into distance. Some, on...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 8
- * Traite sur les Apparitions, t, i. p. 463. The insane lick the walls, believing them to be sugar; they eat gravel, earth, and dirt, and maintain that they are of excellent flavor. The difficulty of ...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 9
- * Michea, op. cit. p. 102, et seq. Psycho-sensorial hallucination. Leuret relates, in his Fragment Psychologiques sur la Folie, that Friar Gilles, disciple of Saint Frarcois, and Saint Louis ...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 10
- Hallucinations are also of frequent occurrence in mania; but they are not so fixed as in the preceding kind. They vary with the ideas of the maniac, or if they appear beneath the torrent of ideas and ...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 11
- The sleep of the hallucinated is generally short, and almost always disturbed. Uneasiness and the distress which many persons feel in the dark, are greatly increased by apparitions. When these are of ...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 12
- * Baillarger, op. cit. i. 12, p. 476. The greatest variety of symptoms are produced by illusions; thus, some persons believe they have the head of a bird or a horse, or an extremely long nose, or one...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 13
- The same objection may be made to the suspension of external impressions; if in many cases it exists, in an equal number it is missing. We attend two ladies, who, with the exception of their hallucina...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 14
- Extraordinary noises, and revelations from the other world, belong to hallucinations of hearing. The voices may be very near, or heard at a distance, and in different directions, or they may consist ...
- Physiology And Symptomatology Of Hallucinations And Illusions. Part 15
- To hallucinations of touch may be ascribed the false sexual impressions of many of the insane, incubes and succubes, and all cases of this character with which the history of the Middle Ages teems. T...
- Chapter XVII. Pathological Anatomy
- A priori, the production of hallucination not easily explained by an anatomical lesion - How account, by pathological anatomy, for the hallucinations of the child, the thinker, and the poet? - Interim...
- Chapter XVIII. Progress - Duration - Diagnosis - Prognosis
- Progress and continuance - Hallucinations are irregular, remittent, sometimes constant - Causes which influence them in their progess. The peculiar form which the madness assumes exercises an action o...
- Progress - Duration - Diagnosis - Prognosis. Continued
- Case CL Madame D., daughter of a celebrated physician, well educated, gifted with a sound judgment, a very good musician, and never having had any disease in the ear, has, for many years, had an hall...
- Chapter XIX. Treatment Of Hallucinations
- Opinions of MM. Esquirol, Lelut, and Calmeil - Opinion of Lenret - Sequestration - Two divisions: 1st Physical treatment - Use of datura stramonium - Hallucinations sometimes suddenly cured - Electric...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 2
- Case CLI An English navy officer having devoted himself ardently to telescopic observations, imagined he had made remarkable discoveries in the sun. Amongst other strange assertions, he solemnly decl...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 3
- Case CLIII A lodging-house keeper, of a powerful constitution, a sanguine temperament, who, from time to time, indulged in excesses, was taken twenty-four years ago to the private mad-house of Madame...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 4
- Case CLIV A medical doctor had hallucinations of sight and hearing. He entreated Esquirol to bleed him. The physician of Charenton long resisted, but vanquished finally by his importunities, complied...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 5
- Case CLVI A lady, hallucinated after her confinement, imagined that she saw a large figure in white which accompanied her everywhere. Her medical attendant recommended the application of leeches on t...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 6
- Case CLVII A. lost his wife, who died a victim to his ill-usage. He became sombre and morose; and suddenly in the night experienced hallucinations. He saw moving corpses and hideous phantoms, who cam...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 7
- Case CLVIII A student of Berlin having always enjoyed good health, returned home one night in great alarm, and, with pallid countenance and bewildered looks, announced that he was to die in thirty-si...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 8
- Case CLIX Mademoiselle Claire, forty years of age, tall, brown, spare, and sinewy, had always enjoyed good health. This lady, religiously brought up, of sound judgment, very placid disposition, manag...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 8. Continued
- * Brierre de Boismont, De la Menstruation consideree dans sea rapports physiologiques et pathologiques, 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 55, 100, 423, 436, 531. Rechcrches bibliographiques et cliniques sur la Folie pu...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 9
- Case CLX A lady, having become melancholy after giving birth to a child, struggled long between reason and insanity, and, finally, concluded that she had committed a capital crime, which infamy had c...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 9. Continued
- Did you know that person on earth? No, M. Leuret; for els months I have worked for the castle, on the security of the king, and have not drawn a cent. I looked at the sun whilst I worked, and whe...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 10
- Case CLXII A man named Vincent believed himself to be so tall that it was impossible for him to pass through the door of his room. His physician ordered that he should be taken through by force. The ...
- Treatment Of Hallucinations. Part 10. Continued
- Hallucinations caused by narcotic substances, require, under most circumstances, therapeutic means. The treatment is evident when they have been occasioned by datura or belladonna, etc. The medicament...
- Chapter XX. Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence
- The hallucinated confounded with vagabonds, robbers, murderers, etc. - 1. Influence of hallucinations on the conduct during waking and sleeping - 2. Influence of illusions under similar circumstances ...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 2
- Case CLXIV One of those horrible dramas which terrify humanity, is thus related by the Brussels papers: - A deplorable event yesterday morning horrified the inhabitants of the Quartier du Marche au...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 3
- Case CLXV A lady had brought up an orphan girl, whom she treated with great kindness. Some rabbits were given into the charge of the child. An idea came into her head that if she killed them she woul...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 4
- Case CLXVL In 1831, says M. Gauthier, I was on my way from Lyons to St. Amour. We were four in the coach; a priest and myself in the coupe, and an officer and another person in the interior. This ...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 5
- Case CLXVII Mr. B. de G. was engaged in an office under government, and inhabited, previously to his arrival in Paris, a provincial town, where his mode of life excited much attention. He suddenly ch...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 6
- Case CLXVIII During the month of May, the commissary of police of the seventh arrondissement was called on to establish a murder. The culprit appeared deeply afflicted at his crime. He declared to th...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 7
- Case CLXIX Captain L., during his stay at Cette, believed that insults and menaces were addressed to him, which induced him to stand armed on the bridge all night. The vessel stood to sea for Bourbo...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 8
- On being delivered up to justice, letters were found upon him, which he had written during his nine days9 flight. Two of these were addressed to the king; in them, his enemies were denounced, but at t...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 9
- First class of facts. - On the 3d May, 1828, D. gave no signs of delirium nor irritation; and retired peaceably to rest with his wife. These circumstances did not escape the witness who had passed the...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 10
- Case CLXXI On the 25th of November, 1840, Dr. Pearce author of several estimable medical works, was cited before the central criminal court for having fired at his wife with intent to kill her, and w...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 11
- Case CLXXIL Amongst the theological students in the University of Leipsio, was one named Rau, who became deeply interested in the study of the Apocalypse of St. John. The perusal of these revelations...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 12
- Case CLXXIV Jonathan Martin, that modern Erostratus, who burned York Minster, said to the examining judge: Your accusation of theft is devoid of common sense, and you had better give it up; I never ...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 13
- We related in our paper of the 9th of July, 1848, an at* tempted assassination, wrapped in mystery, which occurred on the Place du Palais-Royal. A young journeyman goldsmith, named Gamier, was passin...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 14
- Case CLXXVIII The quartermaster to a regiment of African chasseurs stopped at an inn where the walls of the eating-room were decorated with hangings representing the most glorious feats of arms acco...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 15
- Case CLXXX Two aged peasants, who had been intimate friends from infancy, and who had always lived on the most friendly terms, fell victims to this superstition. They were engaged in their usual occu...
- Of Hallucinations Considered In Relation To Medical Jurisprudence. Part 16
- Case CLXXXI A young girl, sixteen years of age, arrived in Paris early in the year of 1786, with a letter of introduction from her family to a friend. By one of those providential chances, which can ...
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