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| 1: | Practical observations on insanity, Joseph Mason Cox, 1811 AD
John Monro, (1758 AD) used "vomits" to cure insanity: "vomiting is infinitely preferable to any other". Cox invented the swing as a way to induce vomiting without the use of drugs (emetics). The swing became a treatment of choice for 100 years in various. Many different machines were invented to spin people into motion sickness so they would vomit. This was a proven method of curing insanity. It worked by making people feel miserable ... to be the preferred treatment to cure insanity: "Though we cannot accurately explain in what way the best remedies promote relief in madness, yet we have the most unequivocal proofs that those which occasion a degree of vertigo, often contribute to correct the morbid state of the intellect, and no one of them is so well calculated to produce this effect as the swing." ... in the whirligig, as he termed it, he submitted entirely to my wishes, and, with some occasional returns of obstinacy and disinclination to persist in the remedies I prescribed, I had ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/practical-observations-on-insanity-joseph-mason-cox-1811ad.htm | 97%  Size: 32K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | Historical overview of Psychiatry: 1550 BC - 2010 AD ... Many different machines were invented to spin people into motion sickness so they would vomit. This was a proven method of curing insanity. It worked by making people feel miserable and break down their will to engage in "insane behaviors". Cox described the swing as, "both a moral [discipline] and medical mean in the treatment of maniacs." It was widely used and believed to be the preferred treatment to cure insanity: "Though we cannot accurately explain in what way the best remedies promote relief in madness, yet we have the most unequivocal proofs that those which occasion a degree of vertigo, often contribute to correct the morbid state of the intellect, and no one of them is so well calculated to produce this effect as the swing." The swing spun an insane, uncontrollable and ... my wishes, and, with some occasional returns of obstinacy and disinclination to persist in the remedies I prescribed, I had the pleasure to see him gradually improve till he advanced to perfect reason." ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-overview.htm | 90% Size: 332K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | Psychiatry historic treatments vomits, bloodletting, cold baths ... ... A. Spiritual Means of Curing insanity Click to View Historically, looking to Christ to cure insanity has a long history. These ... AD) Case 1: Citing a specific case, Joseph Mason Cox says of an insane man who had experienced the swing and promised to change. ... it, he submitted entirely to my wishes, and, with some occasional returns of obstinacy and disinclination to persist in the remedies I prescribed, I had the pleasure to see him gradually improve ... swing as a last resource, into which he was placed as an inanimate lump, with his eyes shut; after a few circumvolutions one eye was observed to be occasionally opened, and at length both, a degree of alarm seemed next excited, then nausea, and retching to vomit; the motion ... they are administered in large doses; in small doses their effect is just the opposite: Opium, Atropa belladona, Daiwa ... adopted to promote its action and to prevent its pernicious effects, formed among the ancients a regular body of doctrine. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-historic-treatments-vomits-blood-letting-cold-baths-blistering-evacuation-purging.htm | 90% Size: 112K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | Textbook of Disturbances of Mental Life, Johann Christian August ... In 1818 AD, Johann Christian August Heinroth, Doctor and Christian, invented the term "psychosomatic". He clearly stated that insanity was ... It must also have a special correction and punishment room with all the necessary equipment, including the Cox swing (or, better, rotating ... are common to man, animal, and plant; the phenomena of sensation and motion, necessary for self-preservation, are common to man and beast. ... Many of us do not even suspect that this seed could grow, and such people therefore never promote its growth. In most men conscience lives ... Its strength and effect are now displayed differently than before: as something perceiving, that is, as reason.* Reason is thus the highest ... Heuristics only points to the remedies in general, but a detailed knowledge must be achieved by observation and experience. The ordered ... The third species is raging melancholia, that is, one accompanied by occasional rages and aggression. Its varieties are M. anglica and Al. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/textbook-of-disturbances-of-mental-life-or-the-disturbances-of-the-soul-and-their-treatment-johann-christian-august-heinroth-1818ad.htm | 88% Size: 1.2M Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | In Darkest England and the Way Out, William Booth 1890 AD who chose to sin can slide down a slippery slope into involuntary insanity. "some men of science [Heinroth] hold that persistence in habits ... But before we come to this I would have every possible means tried to effect their reclamation. Let Justice punish them, and Mercy put her ... with the world in the shape of correspondence, newspapers, and even occasional interviews with relatives, as rewards for well-doing. ... those who read them that there is no overstraining in the representation of the facts, and nothing Utopian in the presentation of remedies. ... we should provide, or on Co-operative Farms which we intend to promote; while the great bulk, after trial and training, would be passed on ... or were otherwise violent; but once let them come to the Shelter, and get into the swing of the concern, and we have no trouble with them. ... We have carefully calculated that with one hundred thousand pounds the scheme can be successfully set in motion, and that it can be kept going ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/in-darkest-england-and-the-way-out-william-booth-1890ad.htm | 64% Size: 738K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | Practical Observations on the Causes and Cure of Insanity, William ... for insanity. "The circulating swing erected in our asylum, appears to be improvement on the model suggested by Doctor Cox. It is worked by a windlass, and capable of being revolved a hundred times in a minute" ... "from repeated trials, I can confidently declare, that its efficacy, to the extent alleged by Doctor Cox, appears ... Hallaran was the primary doctor for a major asylum and testified boldly that the swing cured the insane to his surprise! "The advantages to be derived from the swing, ... to take any medicine prescribed." ... "inflexible maniacs already referred to; on whom no influence can be exerted sufficient to effect a medical purpose ... ... Later, Sir Alexander Morison, 1828 AD, would also adopt the swing which induced motion sickness and brought about compliance from the insane. (Practical Observations ... I have never used it, where the introduction of other remedies had been sufficiently in my power; or, unless they had failed of the desired effect. It will, however, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/practical-observations-on-the-causes-and-cure-of-insanity-william-saunders-hallaran-1818ad.htm | 63% Size: 22K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | A treatise on insanity: in which are contained the Principles ... ... His step is feeble, heavy and tottering. His disinclination to motion is excessive. He is totally insensible to the natural propensity for reproduction ;-a passion so strong ... The medical treatment which had been employed, appears to have produced little effect; the cure having in general been operated by moral or physical regimen during the paroxysm, or by exercise and laborious occupations during the lucid intervals and convalescence. I observe similar results in nine instances of cures which were performed during the first six months of the year 3. In all of them the occasional causes, species of the complaint, and remedies employed ... The cases which are given in the table and which are vouched for their accuracy, shew, that of the five species of insanity to be met with at hospitals, one only, that of ... vegetable; the preliminary remedies and precautions adopted to promote its action and to prevent its pernicious effects, formed among the ancients a regular body of doctrine. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-treatise-on-insanity-philippe-pinel-1806ad.htm | 58% Size: 96K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind ... ... I, pp. 169-73 (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Rush believed insanity was caused by blood vessels in the brain. The Tranquilizer Chair forced the person to calm ... All the operations in the mind are the effects of motions previously excited in the brain, and every idea and thought appears to depend upon a motion peculiar to ... of intellectual madness, but it rarely continues to affect the other faculties of the mind after two or three weeks, or after the liberal use of depleting remedies. ... employed in examining the liver of a dumb animal in order to discover the cause of madness. 2. Madness has been said to be the effect of a disease in the spleen. ... Dr. Cox, of Bristol, informs us that he had found the carotid artery to be full and tense, when the radial artery was weak and soft. The connection of this disease ... diseases that have been mentioned, we can reconcile its occasional absence, with the existence of all the organic affections in the brain which usually produce it. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/medical-inquiries-and-observations-upon-the-diseases-of-the-mind-benjamin-rush-1812ad.htm | 58% Size: 163K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | Fat And Blood, treatment of Neurasthenia And Hysteria, S. Weir ... He takes a similar view of insanity faking to Robert Brudenell Carter. He identified them as being selfish and lazy, "having a taste for invalidism", "mimic fatigue". ... In describing the remedies used, and the mode of using them in combination, I shall relate a sufficient number of cases to illustrate both the happier results and the causes of occasional fail-ure. The treatment I am about to describe consists in seclusion, certain forms of diet, rest in bed, massage (or manipulation), and ... of food while at rest, more or less en-tire, was made possible by the practice of knead-ing the muscles and by moving them with cur-rents able to effect this end. ... the day, the early milk, or cocoa, or coffee, or, if preferred, may be used before noon, or at bedtime, which is found in some cases to be best and to promote sleep. ... to be severe the older the patient is, and may be easily avoided by frequent motion of the joints, which, to be healthful, exact a cer-tain share of daily movement. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/fat-and-blood-treatment-of-neurasthenia-and-hysteria-s-weir-mitchell-1902ad.htm | 56% Size: 68K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | Dictionary of the secret language of Scientology ... Of course, some people have it that the group actually deals with acne pimple remedies... See also ARS. Action, an auditing or processing regimen; an instance of the ... A swing of the Meter needle to the left of a couple inches. LFBD, Long Fall BLow Down. An E-Meter read involving a swing of the needle to the left, and a consequent ... T: Return to the Index TA, Tone Arm, a potentiometer on the E-meter that adjusts sensitivity. TA motion indicates "blowing charge", or success in auditing "therapy." ... Discussion mainly revolves around vapid "wins" and hollow "success stories", interspersed with the occasional plan to destroy or remove alt.religion.scientology. ... Designed to train the auditor "therapist" to be unresponsive to the PC patient. Side effect is creating a cold and distant "thousand-mile stare" in Scientologists' ... Wog world, the mundane society away from the totally free supermen inside the cult of Scientology, seen as an aberrated sea of insanity and criminality to be feared ... ... https://www.bible.ca/scientology-dictonary-terms.htm | 55% Size: 189K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | Bulwarks of the Faith Foy E Wallace JR. Refuting Dogmas Catholicism ... ... You know what occurred? One of the preachers made a motion to adjourn, and it car-ried! The essence of Protestantism is creedism. Protestant preachers will give up ... The college of cardinal is the swinging door to the pope. He swings in, but he does not swing out. The committees of the cardinals from congregations represent the ... time used it to promote bodily vigor! (Visible Church, page 8) If it would promote the bodily vigor of an athlete, why it certainly ought to make a strong Catholic! ... Well, if the oil of the holy chrism has to be "perfumed" in order to be effective in the anointing, if the bishop has halitosis when he blows the breath, what effect ... The Council had a full share of ignorance and superstition, and was disgraced by intrigues and occasional outbursts of intolerance and pas-sion such as are, alas! not ... than having known it to turn from it. 5. Their apostasy was compared to the proverb of the dog returning to his vomit and the hog wallowing in the mire. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/catholic/Catholic-church-doctrine-Bulwarks-of-the-Faith-Foy-E-Wallace-JR-Refuting-Dogmas-Catholicism-Protestant-Denominationalism-1951AD.htm | 53% Size: 1.6M Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | How does Torture and Coercion cure inanity? Introduction to the ... They have an ideological dissonance with admitting torture cures insanity. They cannot admit that torture could have any more effect on insanity, than it would on stabilizing blood sugar levels. Imagine the implications if torture cured diabetes, ... on the rotating chair and revolved at adjusted speed until he becomes quiet, apologizes, and promises improvement, or until he starts to vomit." (Cox's Chair, Nicholas J. Wade, 2005 AD, p. 77) Click to View In 1758 AD, vomiting was the treatment of choice! In 1758, a mad doctor at Bedlam named John Monro induced vomiting on a daily basis to remove "phlegm" and restore "humoral balance", even though he plainly admitted he had no idea what really caused insanity! This was the science of the day. ... The fundamental approach of historic psychiatry to cure the insane, was to make their lives so miserable that they change their behaviours in order to escape the treatment. "[John Burdett] Steward called the treatment [vomits swing] barbarous. He ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-cures-coercion-torture.htm | 51% Size: 27K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | Sin was viewed as the cause (etiology) of mental illness Its time for Christians to wake up the fact that they have been under attack by the devil through the hands of chemical psychiatrists who are usually atheists who promote naturalistic evolution. A. Psychiatric historians re-write ... In fact, Robinson believed that sin and life choices and circumstances had a direct effect on the human body, which then in turn, caused insanity. Re-writing of history by Allan Ingram: "Nicholas Robinson: ... His adoption of a rigorously 'mechanical' view of mental illness shows the ... This explains why vomits, the swing, bloodletting etc were practiced by those who viewed the cause of madness as sin. Historically, there were three groups of etiologies for insanity: 1. Those who believed sin directly caused insanity. ... Click to View In 1811 AD, Joseph Mason Cox, doctor, popularized a form of torture that cured insanity called "the swing" by making people feel miserable and break down their will to engage in "insane behaviors". Cox described the swing ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-causes-etiology-historic-pre-1858ad.htm | 51% Size: 81K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | Anti-psychotic drugs cause permanent brain damage ... They do not fix mental illness, they remove the symptoms. Most of the "good" Neuroleptic drugs are reputed to do, can be accounted for by the mere "placebo effect". Psychiatric drugs do not fix the problem, only numb the feelings. Putting ... Today drugs are the first thing doctors do, not the last. "My faith in pharmaceutic preparations was gradually lessened, and my scepticism went at length so far, as to induce me never to have recourse to them, until moral remedies had completely failed" (A Treatise on Insanity, ... sedation, drowsiness, slow monotonous speech, drowsiness, weakness, washed out, lack of physical energy, slow motion, zonked out, reduced reflexes and reactions, insomnia, sexual dysfunctions, a variety of gastrointestinal problems ... Drug companies make tons of money off the bogus chemical imbalance myth that has no scientific support. Read more Click to View Drug companies & media promote lies for money "At this point in history, in my view, psychiatry has been ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-harms-damages-society-anti-psychotic-drugs-cause-brain-damage.htm | 50% Size: 166K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | Pathology of the Brain and Nervous Stock, Soul of Brutes, Thomas ... ... of the Brain and Nervous Stock, Soul of Brutes, Thomas Willis, 1667 AD) "The idea that insanity is due to "nervous exhaustion," a fatigue of the brain or nervous system, best treated by rest, ... It is perhaps pertinent that Willis also noted the beneficial effect of mercury by inunction in some cases of what he called Palsie ... not very fixed' which of course became part of the standard ... Intentions, and use of Remedies are directed. The Passions, which are wont to be referred to this sense or order, are found to be various and manifold; which rarely happen in diverse women, or which come wholly after the same manner : The most Common, and which commonly are said to constitute the formal Reason of the hysterical distemper, are these, viz. A motion in the bottom of the belly, and an ascention of the same, as it were a certain round thing, then a belching, or a striving to vomit, a distention, and murmur of the hyponchondria, with a breaking forth of blasts of winde, an ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/pathology-of-the-brain-and-nervous-stock-soul-of-brutes-thomas-willis-1667ad.htm | 50% Size: 24K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | Description Of The Retreat An Institution Near York For Insane ... ... by writers on insanity, received an ample trial ; but they appeared to the physician too inefficacious, to deserve the appellation of remedies, except when indicated by the general state of the habit. ... and judiciously excited, as it is by the operation of just and equal laws, has a salutary effect upon society." (Description Of The Retreat For Insane, Samuel Tuke, 1813 AD) "From the view we have now taken of the propriety of exciting fear, as a means of promoting the cure of insanity, by enabling the patient to control himself, it will, perhaps, be almost superfluous to state as ... For this purpose, as well as for others still more important, it is certainly right to promote in the patient, an attention to his accustomed modes of paying homage to his Maker." (Description Of The ... In pursuing these desirable objects, let not the inexperienced, but judicious attendant, expect too immediate effects from his endeavours, or be dis-heartened by occasional disappointment. Let him bear ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/description-of-the-retreat-an-institution-near-york-for-insane-samuel-tuke1813ad.htm | 49% Size: 155K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 17: | Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from ... ... Mary Hall was spanking her father through the demon. There are countless examples of this sad, but typical case of faking insanity today. The story of Sybil is yet a modern case of a bored woman, ... or not at all curable by Ordinary and Natural Remedies. A Relation of Mary Hall of Gadsden, reputed to be possessed of two Devils Mary Hall, a Maid of Womans Stature, a Smiths Daughter of little Gadsden in the County of Hartford, began to sicken in the fall of the Leaf, 1663. It took her first in one foot with a trembling shaking and Convulsive motion, afterwards it possessed both; she would sit ... and prepared stinking Suffumigations, over which she held her head, and sometimes did strain to vomit, and her distemper for some weekes seemed abated, upon Doctor Woodhouse direction; Then ... put your head into the Fire; or, Mary, put your head into the Pot, and sometimes of a suddain they would dop down her head, as if she should put it into the Scalding Pottage, but could not effect it. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-casebook-of-biblical-psychiatry-real-cases-book-treatment-companion-bewitched-daimonomageia-a-small-treatise-of-sicknesses-and-diseases-from-witchcraft-william-drage-1665ad.htm | 49% Size: 47K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 18: | A Treatise on Madness, William Battie, 1758 AD ... But it may be feared that a solemn confutation of chimaeras [mythical creatures] will appear equally ridiculous as an attempt to establish them ; and he may perhaps incur the suspicion of insanity which these theorists have deserved, who shall ... And, what chiefly deserves our notice whilst we are considering the salutary effects of Sensation, Convulsion itself, a distempered excess of animal motion, which is a frequent effect of uneasy Sensation, sometimes becomes its sudden and ef-ficacious remedy, by removing ... And in fact we find that Anxiety is almost always the consequence of morbid laxity, except where the intervention of fat, lymph, or vifcid congestions F 2 owing [ 36 I owing to such laxity subsiitute an occasional de-fence. No wonder is it ... Whenever therefore nothing external to the muscular fibres can be assigned which is capable of provoking their constriction, we have no hope except in Specific remedies, that is in such drugs, whole antispasmodic virtues experience alone has ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-treatise-on-madness-william-battie-1758ad.htm | 48% Size: 130K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 19: | Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker, 2010 AD ... "The serotonin theory of depression," he wrote, with evident exas-peration, "is comparable to the masturbatory theory of insanity." Fn 14 [David Healy, "Ads for SSRI antidepressants are misleading," ... Schizophrenia (N=30) Other psychotic disorders (N=45) Antipsychotic use Never exposed to antipsychotics Occasional use during five years Ongoing use at end of five years 67% 33% 20% Psychotic symptoms ... Everyone goes to that first meeting aware that they "know nothing," said nurse Mia Kurtti. Their job is to promote an "open dialogue" in which everybody's thoughts can become known, with the family ... Health Foundation, a London-based charity that has been promoting this alternative. "It also reduces anxiety. It's good for self-esteem, control of obesity, et cetera. It has a broad-spectrum effect." ... There were thousands of small companies that sold syrups, elixirs, and herbal remedies directly to the public (or as packaged goods in stores), with these "patent" medicines typically made from ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/anatomy-of-an-epidemic-robert-whitaker-2010ad1.htm | 47% Size: 982K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 20: | Encyclopedia of Pentecostal ministries and preachers ... Shiloh will include a piece of property where a number of prophetically gifted ministries will live together as they share revelation with one another releasing a 'roundtable of the prophets' effect. ... The prophecy says that the movement will be known by its great street ministry, consisting of people using music and arts to promote the gospel and to bring thousands of unsaved into the church. It ... G. Campbell Morgan described the Azusa Street activities as "the last vomit of Satan." (Holy Laughter to Holy Fire" by Michael L. Brown, pages 197&198) R.A. Torrey declared that this new Pentecostal ... of a couple of hundred pounds, little better, has a span of 8 and, I mean nine inches across - stood up and said Light be [Let it be?], and this universe situated itself and went into motion. ... I guess that what he was doing would have been labeled "speaking in tongues," but it sounded more like an Indian chant "Oo-ee-ah-oo-ee" (with occasional "whoosh" and "shew . . . Holy Ghost" sounds ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-encyclopedia-pentecostal-preachers.htm | 47% Size: 247K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 21: | THE PIRATES OF PRIVILEGE: Walter Rea Rocks the Seventh-day Adventist ... ... Finally, morality by their definition, not grace and conversion by the Holy Spirit, is the stock and trade of the church, and that still small voice that would have kept those men from the insanity of ... The legal wheels have now been in motion almost six months and we are very close to a "point of no return!" 8 The speculation is that millions have been spent in the last few years for any and every ... In my case the two problems merged because of my special knowledge in both areas and my desire and efforts to inform the church as a whole in order to effect change. How foolish I was to believe that ... CURRENTS: Was there a prior agreement as to what would happen to your book when it came out? MARTIN: Oh, yes. We would distribute the book and promote it through Christian bookstores, through Eternity ... But the Church has spoken; so we will try to comply. Any questions should now be directed to PREXAD or Jim Cox, who I understand has been selected to do additional work. One or two thoughts remain to ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-pirates-of-privilege.htm | 46% Size: 486K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 22: | Sabbatatrians Refuted and Sabbath keepers Exposed: 2011 AD ... Brendan's claim that God was chiding them for breaking a Sabbath commandment that existed prior to the Exodus is completely unnecessary and has the effect to adding things to this passage of Scripture ... Cox is not saying that Mede's theory that Israel did not keep the Sabbath on the way from the Red Sea to Mt. Sinai is wrong, and he did not necessarily agree with him that the Sabbath was given at ... The result was his arm had only 30% of its normal range of motion. It was pitiful to see him bowling or playing any kind of sports, and hundreds of people were daily witnesses to his severe handicap. ... The Semitic moon god Su'en/Sin is in origin a separate deity from Sumerian Nanna, but from the Akkadian Empire period the two undergo syncretization and are identified. The occasional Assyrian ... on our religious assemblies, and duly avail ourselves of those external aids which tend to promote the worship of God. - (Beverly's translation, volume I, p. 466.) According to the Wikipedia ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-lying-for-god-Kerry-Wynne.htm | 46% Size: 2.6M Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 23: | Casebook of Biblical Psychiatry Version 7: Real Mental Illnesses ... Schizophrenia, delusion, paranoia Checklist Behaviours DSM-7 Laziness, Deception, lying, arrogance, pride, boasting, unwilling to admit when wrong. Insights MMPI-7 Quick Pick EDS-7.1 Insanity Self-disablement EDS-7.2 Employment: Time off work in asylum Chemical imbalance EDS-7.3 Benefits EDS-7.4 Fun, entertainment, relief from ... A watchmaker chooses schizophrenia as a solution to a problem that is never discovered and is cured through appealing to his ego and open ridicule A Celebrated watchmaker, at Paris, was infatuated with the chimera [imaginary fairies] of perpetual motion, and to effect this discovery, he set to work with indefatigable ardour. From unremitting ... Instead of drugs, he cured insanity by "moral treatments". "My faith in pharmaceutic preparations was gradually lessened, and my scepticism went at length so far, as to induce me never to have recourse to them, until moral remedies had completely failed" Philippe Pinel would rise up today and oppose the chemical psychiatrists ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-casebook-of-biblical-psychiatry-real-cases-book-treatment-companion-headless.htm | 41% Size: 32K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 24: | Casebook of Biblical Psychiatry Version 7: Real Mental Illnesses ... ... It was the purely social barriers (based on the bible) that were the source of her resistance. Although not specifically states, it appears that the doctor knew the woman's real problem of insanity was caused by her desire to leave her husband. He noted that she ... Strip away the diagnosis and you have core behaviours of an unfaithful wife wanting to escape an unhappy marriage. Blair's treatment of her is grounded on humoral medicine. He begins with the usual humoral remedies: Blair write: "These Symptomes requir'd great preparation of the vitiated humors before she could undergo such an operation [water boarding]; 1. frequent bleedings [bloodletting], 2. violent Emeticks [vomit inducing drugs], 3. strong purgatives [diarrhea ... In 1828 AD, Sir Alexander Morison, Doctor, illustrated two torture machines widely used between 1725 AD and 1850 AD to cure the insane: Water treatment and the Swing. The fact they were so widely used and indeed cured the insane, is historic proof that mental ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-casebook-of-biblical-psychiatry-real-cases-book-treatment-companion-waterfall.htm | 40% Size: 49K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 25: | Church ministers were the first Psychiatrists!: The history of ... The fact is that any judgements a minister might make based upon the Bible are always infinitely better than anything an atheistic psychiatrist or psychologist might ever say. "My intention is not to promote or to criticize organized religion, although I do wish it would not relegate the "curing of souls" to psychiatry." ... Many madhouse keepers were clergymen, not physicians."(Coercion as Cure, Thomas Szasz, 2007 AD, p 26, 29, 71) "But in the seventeenth century the distinction was blurred by the prevailing negative attitudes toward insanity and the crude, exotic remedies applied to cure it. The upper- and middle-class sick found relief within the family. Here the ... Although it started altruistically by church ministers, Bedlam was destined to be where full institutional psychiatry made its big splash, complete with forced commitment and forced treatment that was in full swing by about 1735 AD. At first, it was only the rich were taken from their homes and placed in mad houses by ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-church-ministers-first-psychiatrists.htm | 39% Size: 86K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 26: | Aphorisms: Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases, Herman ... Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Introduction: In 1715 AD, Herman Boerhaave, Doctor, believed that insanity was caused entirely by "the Blood become thick, black, fat and earthy ... malignancy of the Blood and Humors, which the ... Solitude; all the Affections of the Mind violent and lasting ; an Indifferency to all other Matters' , a Laziness as to Motion; and yet a very great and earnest Application to any sort of Study or Labour. 1095. Its matter therefore is the earth and ... 1097. For as soon as it shews itself by what is did in the Beginning of both, (1093, and 1094.) either as a Cause or an Effect, the Physician ought to procure a continual change of Objects and that without the Patient's knowledge; and such ought to ... Cordials, or cryed up under any other Title. 1112. So that the best Method to cure this Disease, is to apply different Remedies and opposite to the different Sorts known from the exact: observation of the proximate Cause and different Constitution ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/aphorisms-concerning-the-knowledge-and-cure-of-diseases-herman-boerhaave-1715ad.htm | 39% Size: 23K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 27: | Observations on Maniacal Disorders, William Pargeter, 1792 AD I then suddenly unlocked the door - rushed into the room and caught his eye in an instant. The business was then done - he became peaceable in a moment." Of course this proves that insanity is not some chemical imbalance in the brain where a person ... Halsam, from his supposing that it consists simply in imparting to the eye a stern or ferocious look. This may sometimes be necessary ; but a much greater effect is produced, by looking the patient out of countenance with a mild and steady eye, and ... This may be, and yet the efficacy of the eye as a calming remedy not be called in question. It is but one of several other remedies that are proper to tranquilize him ; and, when used alone, may not be sufficient for that purpose. Who will deny the ... After I had informed myself particularly respecting the family - occasional visitors in her late excursion, &c. I was introduced to her room, and found her in a thoughtful posture, her elbow on the table, and resting her cheek upon her hand. She did ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/observations-on-maniacal-disorders-william-pargeter-1792ad.htm | 39% Size: 18K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 28: | On hallucinations: a History and Explanation, Alexandre J. F ... ... It should be borne in mind that, since a hallucination is generally a complication of some one of the different forms of insanity, what we shall say with regard to the treatment will often apply to both disorders.This distinction is particularly ... Let us take some examples : a person gives himself up to the immoderate use of fermented liquors, and becomes subject to hallucinations; sometimes confinement is sufficient to effect a cure, but frequently it is also necessary to have recourse to ... In this case, ought not the employment of physical remedies to precede that of moral agents? What reason teaches us, experience confirms. The Academician Nicolai was subject to congestions, which required the employment of leeches, but which he had ... mistaken for a corpse but for the motion of the head, which corresponded to that of the bearers; two of the officers in attendance had in their hands a golden waiter, on each of which was a cup, and a small bottle containing a bluish-looking liquid. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/on-hallucinations-a-history-and-explanation-alexandre-j-f-brierre-de-boismont-1859ad.htm | 39% Size: 186K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 29: | Psychiatry calls Jesus a paranoid schizophrenic! Burton recommends, in the highest terms, the reading of the BIBLE to hypochondriac patients. He compares it to an apothecary's shop, in which are contained remedies for every disease of the body. I have frequently observed the languor and depression of mind which occur in the evening of life, to be much relieved by the ... the idea that Methodism was a cause of insanity and demanded proof of those who made this false charge by quoting a surgeon at Bedlam: "The surgeon to Bethlem Hospital says: " As for the opinion which some entertain, of the prevalent effect of Methodism, in producing insanity, proof, in place of bold and bare assertion, is required to settle this point." ... For this purpose, as well as for others still more important, it is certainly right to promote in the patient, an attention to his accustomed modes of paying homage to his Maker." (Description Of The Retreat For Insane, Samuel Tuke, 1813 AD) "Though men are not dogs, they should humbly try to remember how much they ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-atheistic-anti-christian-jesus-mental-patient-paranoid-schizophrenic.htm | 39% Size: 68K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 30: | Blood Circulation in the body (Exercitatio anatomica de circulatione ... Of course this is nothing new. Modern science recognizes how stress can cause heart attacks and drive one to insanity. However, the doctor contributed to the myth of hysteria by blaming the uterus for inducing insanity. Modern psychiatry retained ... he advised her Parents (who sent her not thither out of poverty) to take her home, and provide her a Husband, by whom, in effect, she was according to his Prognostic, and to many Men's wonder, cured of that strange Disease." (Blood Circulation in the ... And, indeed, such a flood of light and truth breaks in upon me here; occasion offers of explaining so many problems, of resolving so many doubts, of discovering the causes of so many slighter and more serious diseases, and of suggesting remedies for ... Thomas's] (of which he is one of the Chirurgions) there was a Maid of about eighteen Years of age, who, without the loss of motion, had so lost the sense of feeling in the external parts of her Body, that when he had, for tryal sake, pinn'd her ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/blood-circulation-in-the-body-exercitatio-anatomica-de-circulatione-sanguinis-william-harvey-1649.htm | 39% Size: 14K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 31: | Hypochondriasis: A Practical Treatise, John Hill, 1766 AD The first and lightest of the signs that shew this illness are a lowness of spirits, an inaptitude to motion ; a disrelish of amusements, a love of solitude and a habit of thinking, even on trifling subjects, with too much steadiness." Typical of the ... Insanity was viewed as being caused by stomach and digestion problems. Hill, like many of his day, therefore instructed the diet to be soft and easy to digest: "plenty of boiled vegetables, are always right ; and give enough variety, raw vegetables ... Once the theory of the nervous origins of hypochondria gained ground-here I merely note coincidence, not historical cause and effect - the disease became increasingly fashionable in England, particularly among the polite, the aristocratic, and the ... However scientifically correct Hill may have been in minimizing the efficacy of current pills and potions advertised as remedies for the hyp, he was unusual for his time in objecting so strongly to them. Less eccentric was his allegiance to the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/hypochondriasis-a-practical-treatise-john-hill-1766ad.htm | 39% Size: 68K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 32: | Casebook of Biblical Psychiatry Version 7: The case of "Demon ... ... Because Joe was annoying, and because all psychiatric drugs have the identical effect on both the sane and insane, the drug would likely have a dampening effect on his behaviour. If he was psychotic, the drug would diminish the behaviours, if he was ... or not at all curable by Ordinary and Natural Remedies." It is best to view this as a comedy act put on by Mary Hall who was supposed possessed by two demons. Only then, do you realize how much fun she was having putting on her show and getting all kinds of attention. Typical of hysterics, the curtain rises on Act 1, and Mary Hall starts "the old shaking foot trick"! "It took her first in one foot with a trembling shaking and Convulsive motion, afterwards it possessed both; she would sit ... Mary Hall was spanking her father through the demon. There are countless examples of this sad, but typical case of faking insanity today. The story of Sybil is yet a modern case of a bored woman, trying to get her acting career off the ground! ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-casebook-of-biblical-psychiatry-real-cases-book-treatment-companion-demon.htm | 38% Size: 39K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 33: | Psychiatry: Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative ... ... It is the grand illusion that we have inherited from Freud. Freud's concept was that you had to get to the truth, and unless you get the truth no therapeutic effect can take place. So, in the pursuit of the truth we become engaged in story telling ... or not at all curable by Ordinary and Natural Remedies." It is best to view this as a comedy act put on by Mary Hall who was supposed possessed by two demons. Only then, do you realize how much fun she was having putting on her show and getting all kinds of attention. Typical of hysterics, the curtain rises on Act 1, and Mary Hall starts "the old shaking foot trick"! "It took her first in one foot with a trembling shaking and Convulsive motion, afterwards it possessed both; she would sit ... Mary Hall was spanking her father through the demon. There are countless examples of this sad, but typical case of faking insanity today. The story of Sybil is yet a modern case of a bored woman, trying to get her acting career off the ground! ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-junk-science-multiple-personality-disorder-MPD-myth.htm | 38% Size: 26K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 34: | George Salmon's Infallibiliy of the church The reading of this summary should promote interest in the total work. Pat Hardeman, Ph.D. Introduction In his biography of the renown schoolman Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton noted "that we must either not argue with a man at all, or we must argue on his grounds and not ours" (St. Thomas Aquinas, 108). In Thc Infallibility of the Church, Anglican theologian George Salmon employed this principle with telling effect against the religion of Aquinas and Chesterton, Roman Catholicism. He met the ... The first rule he pronounces fallacious is "a supposed private interpretation, or an immediate light or motion of God's Spirit communicated to the individual" i.e., personal inspiration]. [80] The second rule he declares fallacious is private ... council was the acclamations (interruptions) of hishops that the reporters carefully took down. [316] At Chalcedon, where, in contrast to previous councils, the proceedings were comparatively orderly, there were occasional scenes of great uproar. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-salmon-infallibility.htm | 38% Size: 282K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 35: | Bedlam: The most famous mental hospital in history. 1677 - 1815 ... ... Therapeutics at Bethlem was characterized by relatively uniform purges, vomits, and bleeding, administered seasonally to patients, with the occasional addition of tonics (such as alcohol), cold bathing (or other cooling applications), and warm or hot ... He adds, " but on consulting my book of cases, I have me found that such patients have been particularly benefited by the use of this remedy." It appears that this indiscriminate treatment of insanity, is not confined to Bethlem Hospital." ... Monro? A mad-doctor; and pray what great matter is that? What can mad-doctors do? prescribe purging physic, letting of blood, a vomit, cold bath, and a regular diet? How many incurables are there? ... physicians . are often poor helps; and if they ... man who left Leskeard and went to reside at Plymouth Dock, and not hearing from him, she went over, and found he was about to be married the next day to another person, and it had such an effect upon her mind that she has been deranged ever since. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-bedlam-bethlem-bethlehem.htm | 38% Size: 65K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 36: | On the Pathology and Treatment of Hysteria, Robert Brudenell ... Introduction: In 1853 AD, Robert Brudenell Carter, world renounced ophthalmologist, wrote his first book on hysteria and faking insanity. Having concluded much of insanity was pure faking, he lost interest in psychiatry and specialized in eye ... This was in order to create the false appearance to the hysterics friends and family that they really were suffering from a bodily disease. "she must be well assured herself that these pretended remedies are perfectly inoperative; and she must be ... The effect of emotion in producing hysteria has long been a matter of common observation, and is distinctly recognised by many authors on the subject, but they have all regarded it only as an exciting agency, which required for its operation the ... The occasional occurrence of nymphomania may be taken as a case in point, and may be explained on the ground that attention to the emotions concerned in producing hysteria has weakened the sense of decency for a time, by engrossing the whole nervous ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/on-the-pathology-and-treatment-of-hysteria-robert-brudenell-carter-1853ad.htm | 38% Size: 210K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 37: | Criminals, rapists, murderers freed from jail by Psychiatrists ... ... Prichard's primary goal is to promote the insanity plea so that physically sick people driven to criminal activity, are excused: He describes his desire for criminals to be excused: "lessening culpability", "maintain a plea on the ground of insanity ... instinct, they resemble machines and are maintained by vital laws in bodily life alone." (Textbook of Disturbances of Mental Life and Soul, Johann Heinroth, 1818 AD) Benjamin Rush: [insanity] "acts without a motive, by a kind of involuntary power. ... ; for children are incapable of being permanently influenced by appeals to reason, natural affection, gratitude, or even a sense of shame. 2. The use of strong drink is at first the effect of free agency. From habit it takes place from necessity. ... before that cannon, in order to get at the rum." (Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind, Benjamin Rush 1812 AD) "The REMEDIES for this disease have hitherto been religious and moral, and they have sometimes cured it. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-harms-damages-society-mental-insanity-plea-defense.htm | 38% Size: 80K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 38: | Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice Bucke, 1901 AD ... Although theoretically this may have been so, we have already seen in Bucke's belief in the Baconian authorship issue his propensity to find what he was looking for and to fashion his rationale around it. This was most flagrant in his approval on the effect of gynecological ... It was such an occasion that Whitman described in his recollection of his 1880 visit to the London Asylum. Thus, in the absence of specific remedies for the insane, the approach was rational and a reflection of the values held by Victorian society. Although the important role of heredity in the genesis of insanity engendered therapeutic pessimism among alienists, a chink of light was visible. Insanity was associated with both poverty and ... As a child he assisted in such labor as lay within his power : tended cattle, horses, sheep, pigs ; brought in firewood, worked in the hay field, drove oxen and horses, ran errands. His 8 Cosmic Consciousness pleasures were as simple as his labors. An occasional visit to a ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/cosmic-consciousness-richard-maurice-bucke-1901ad.htm | 37% Size: 413K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 39: | Mad-Doctors: William Battie: 1703-1776 AD ... In a bizarre twist, chemical psychiatry praises Battie for what he had wrong (somatic origin of insanity: original madness) and ignores Battie for what he had right (etiology of circumstance: consequential madness.) Welcome to modern psychiatry! F. ... Of course SAD is pure junk science for a long list of reasons. "One case of Consequential Madness that proves the intervention of such pressure is an effect of Insolation [exposure to Sunlight] or what the French call coup du soleil. An instance of ... the 1950's for making false claims.], mineral waters, and cold bathing ; which are the proper and often-times effectual remedies, whenever Anxiety arises from the laxity or defect of those membranes that surround and defend the medullary matter." (A ... For such spasmodic action communicates a vibrating motion to the solid fibres of the whole body; whereby the overloaded membranes and integuments that compress the contiguous medullary substance remove or expell their morbid contents, and the patient ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-mad-doctors-william-battie-1703-1776ad.htm | 37% Size: 107K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 40: | "Seventh-day Adventism Renounced" by D. M. Canright, 1914 ... Elder Uriah Smith, by far the ablest man then in their ranks, also had his seasons of doubt, when he ceased to work, and engaged in secular employments. Hear his own confession: "That I have had in my experience occasional periods of trial, I do not ... This ran through a long period of years, till it was feared that he would quit them entirely. His wife was nearly driven to insanity over similar trials. Finally they broke down, "confessed" the same as I did once, and now profess to be satisfied. He ... Disappointed and soured, under pretext of ill-health, he went off to Florida on a little farm - another example of the blighting effect of Adventism. He is now doing what I did two or three times, only from a different cause. Has he, then, left them? ... It is served up on all occasion and his authors are quoted over and over by writers and preachers. But the great bulk of his quotations are from such men as Heylyn, Domville, Morer, Cox, Brerewood, White, etc., Episcopal clergymen of England who were ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-Seventh-day-Adventism-RENOUNCED-by-D-M-Canright.htm | 37% Size: 749K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 41: | Hindu Gurus and Pentecostal preachers are identical!!! ... For example Sai Baba will often ask people "What do you want" and many people will ask him to materialize very obscure things: fruits out of season, a perpetual motion watch, a map of the world in the future, some wood from the original cross and ... With sufficient practice, one may eventually become able to move one's qi at will anywhere inside the body. A person's own willpower can then effect miraculous cures. Once the flow of qi can reach the site of disease or illness, the cure can be ... Without such a test, Qigong runs into the danger of being dismissed as "Superstition". His goal is simple and yet profound - "Use science to promote Qigong and use Qigong to gain breakthroughs in science". Therefore along with other masters in China, ... These exercises, so strange in the eyes of the beholders, brought upon them the appellation of Shakers, which has been their most common name of distinction ever since. They continued to increase in light and power, with occasional additions to their ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-kundalini-shakers-charismastics.htm | 36% Size: 249K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 42: | Kadesh-Barnea by Henry Clay Trumbull, 1884 AD ... Of its appearance, as it first met his sight, he says : 2 " Having ascended a ridge, a scene of awful grandeur burst sud denly upon us with such startling effect as to strike us dumb for some moments. A^ 7 e found ourselves standing on a gigantic nat ... Mill (Hist, of Crusades, chap. X.), counts this period between the second and third crusades; so does Cox (Encyc. Brit., ninth ed., Art. "Cru sades"); but Michaud (Hist, of Crusades, Bk. VII.), includes it in the third crusade. 3 Various authorities ... From travels, meantime, there was little light shed ; although an occasional gleam showed itself through such an opening of the desert elosures. Roger, a French missionary, on a map accompa nying his description of the Holy Land 9 located Kadesh ... early morning, might have been sufficient in view of arrangements already made, 5 to start the order from lookout to lookout over all the land of Ramcses-Goshcn," and to set the mighty multitude in motion, to ward the appointed rendezvous at Succoth. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-henry-clay-trumbull-1884ad.htm | 35% Size: 1.1M Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 43: | Bible Only Revelation Commentary by Steven Rudd ... There are two problems with this: 1. FIRST: The capital city of the Roman Empire moved from Rome to Constantinople in AD 329, which means even if the city of Rome was destroyed (which it never was) it had no effect upon the Roman Empire itself. The ... In fact, he was the second to promote a persecution against us, although his father Vespasian contrived nothing unusual against us. At this time, report has it that the Apostle and Evangelist John, who was still alive, was condemned to dwell on the ... At any rate, they were here captured [a year later in AD 304] and brought to the official who was conducting the persecution." (Martyrdom of Agape, Chione, Irene 1, 304 AD) b. 'What is this insanity,' said the prefect Dulcitius, 'that you refuse to ... The Latin church introduced it pretty generally, but not without the protest of eminent men, so that even in the Council of Trent a motion was made, though not carried, to prohibit the organ at least in the mass." (Philip Schaff, History of the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/revelation/ | 34% Size: 3.0M Depth: 7 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 44: | Psychologists view mental patients as victims, deny personal ... ... Heinroth states that the mad doctor alone determines if a person is "unfree" and can invoke the insanity plea. "This will be easy for the physician to determine once he has observed the type and the degree of the unfree state." Heinroth has 9 type of insanity, all of which are unfree: "Insanity, Dementia, Rage, Melancholia, Idiocy, Apathy, Insane melancholia, Confusion, Timidity" Finally, Heinroth employs all the forms of "moral treatment" that all the other mad houses were using. He gives great details on how to run an asylum and specifies a building that could be viewed in hind sight as a torture chamber: "A special building must be set aside for the physical treatment of the mentally disturbed. This building should have a special bathing section, with all kinds of baths, showers, douches, and immersion vessels. It must also have a special correction and punishment room with all the necessary equipment, including the Cox swing (or, better, rotating machine), Reil's fly-wheel, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-atheistic-anti-christian-deny-personal-responsibility-victim-outside-perpetrator.htm | 32% Size: 28K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 45: | Cases of Mental Disease, with Practical Observations, Sir Alexander ... In 1828 AD, Sir Alexander Morison, Doctor, illustrated two torture machines widely used between 1725 AD and 1850 AD to cure the insane: Water treatment and the Swing. The fact they were so widely used and indeed cured the insane, is historic proof that mental illness is not a bodily disease or chemical imbalance in the brain, but a spiritual choice made by the "patient". (Cases of Mental Disease, with Practical Observations, Sir Alexander Morison, 1828 AD) Cases of Mental Disease, with Practical Observations, Sir Alexander Morison, 1828 AD THE DOUCHE AND THE ROTATORY MACHINE, 1828 In visiting private asylums for the insane, I have had frequent occasion to observe, that the difficulty of procuring proper machines for administering the Douche and Rotatory Motion, has prevented medical men, having patients under their care, to whom these remedies might have been beneficial, from making a trial of them. I have therefore thought it may be useful to give drawings of Machines for each of the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/cases-of-mental-disease-with-practical-observations-sir-alexander-morison-1828ad.htm | 31% Size: 5K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 46: | Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting, Sir Charles ... Unlike Lavater (Essays on physiognomy, 1789 AD) who interpreted the bone structure of the face as a roadmap to intelligence and madness, Bell understood that a person whose spirit is continually under anxiety, will show up in the face through muscle and wrinkle patterns. Bell was a forerunner of body language expert, Tonya Reiman. As an artist Bell had visited Bedlam and was surprised to learn that some of his own stereotypes of the insane were wrong, before he visited. The visit gave his a whole new view of insanity. Written to coach painters, Bell's book opens a window into the etiology of madness just before the torture at Bedlam came to an end. He backs up his belief that the spirit has a direct effect upon the body by quoting Dr. James Beattie, "Descartes, and some other philosophers, have endeavoured to explain the physical cause which connects a human passion with its correspondent natural sign. They wanted to show, from the principles of motion, and of the animal economy, why ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/essays-on-the-anatomy-of-expression-in-painting-sir-charles-bell-1806ad.htm | 31% Size: 23K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 47: | A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind ... We do not understand why psychiatrists are always wanting to excuse sinful behaviour on the basis of insanity. "In this form of moral derangement the disordered condition of the mind displays itself in a want of self-government, in continual excitement, an unusual expression of strong feelings, in thoughtless and extravagant conduct". Prichard's primary goal is to promote the insanity plea so that physically sick people driven to criminal activity, are excused: He describes his desire for criminals to ... The difficulties with which administrators of justice have to contend in distinguishing crimes from the result of insane impulse will never be entirely removed, but they will be rendered much less important when the good sense of the community shall have produced the effect of abolishing all capital punishments. That this will sooner or later happen I entertain no doubt. Many persons have begun already to hesitate as to the moral rectitude of putting men to death in cases in which the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-treatise-on-insanity-and-other-disorders-affecting-the-mind-james-cowles-prichard-1835ad.htm | 30% Size: 24K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 48: | John Wesley (1703-91) Primitive Physic: or An Easy and Natural ... ... Strangely, Wesley used his "electric machine" not only to cure insanity, but many other medical conditions. Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) has been used since 1747 AD to cure insanity. Click to View Click to View The difference is that Wesley did not run electricity through the brain as is done today, but rather up an arm or leg. Wesley's treatment only inflicted pain. Chemical Psychiatrists today use ECT to run electricity through the brain. This causes memory loss and has a stupefying effect. In 2006, psychiatrist Colin A. Ross concluded that "claims in textbooks and review articles that ECT is effective are not consistent with the published ... His widely read and frequently reprinted Primitive physick (1747) provided homely remedies within the reach of all; The family physician (1769) laid down rules of health and hygiene; and The desideratum was written to popularise what he considered the cheapest, safest, and most successful treatment for 'nervous Cases of every Kind', namely ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/primitive-physic-or-an-easy-and-natural-method-of-curing-most-diseases-john-wesley-1747ad.htm | 30% Size: 37K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 49: | Casebook of Biblical Psychiatry Version 7: Real Mental Illnesses ... Gregory, that a farmer, in the North of Scotland, a man of Herculean stature, acquired great fame in that district of the British empire, by his success in the cure of insanity. The great secret of his practice consisted in giving full employment to the remaining faculties of the lunatic. With that view, he compelled all his patients to work on his farm. He varied their occupations, divided their labour, and assigned to each, the post which he was best qualified to fill. Some were employed as beasts of draught or burden, and others as servants of various orders and provinces. Fear was the operative principle that gave motion and harmony to this rude system. ... Instead of drugs, he cured insanity by "moral treatments". "My faith in pharmaceutic preparations was gradually lessened, and my scepticism went at length so far, as to induce me never to have recourse to them, until moral remedies had completely failed" Philippe Pinel would rise up today and oppose the chemical psychiatrists who ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-casebook-of-biblical-psychiatry-real-cases-book-treatment-companion-hercules.htm | 30% Size: 28K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 50: | A treatise of vapours or hysterick fits, John Purcell, 1707 AD ... A treatise of vapours or hysterick fits, John Purcell, 1707 AD John Purcell (1674-1730) M D Montpellier, L R C P, physician of London A treatise of vapours, or, hysterick fits, 1702 London, Newman & Cox (pp. viii +158 +x) pp 1-9, 120-3 A second edition 1707 THE SYMPTOMS AND DIAGNOSTICKS OF VAPOURS Vapours, otherwise called ... Those who are troubled with Vapours, generally perceive them approach in the following manner; first, they feel a Heaviness upon their Breast; a Grumbling in their Belly; they Belch up, and sometimes Vomit, Sower, Sharp, Insipid, or Bitter Humours : They have a Difficulty in breathing; and think they feel something that comes up ... Fourthly in a Syncope, a cold Sweat always comes over the whole Body, which does not happen in these Trances : The Face is always Pale in the Syncope, but sometimes very Red in these Fits : In Vapours there are generally Convulsions; in an Syncope always a Feebleness or Inability of all the Parts to perform any Motion, regular or ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-treatise-of-vapours-or-hysterick-fits-john-purcell-1707ad.htm | 30% Size: 13K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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