Intermittent disease is a condition where symptoms appear in a predictable pattern, with clear periods of normal health in between episodes. Symptoms flare up, then resolve, only to return at regular intervals. Malaria is a classic example, characterized by fever cycles. Another example could be perRead more
Intermittent disease is a condition where symptoms appear in a predictable pattern, with clear periods of normal health in between episodes. Symptoms flare up, then resolve, only to return at regular intervals.
Malaria is a classic example, characterized by fever cycles. Another example could be periodic migraine headaches, where sufferers have intense headaches at regular intervals with symptom-free periods in between.
Understanding these patterns helps in managing and predicting the course of the disease. Interesting how the body’s rhythms play a role.
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If the mental disease be not quite developed, and if it be still somewhat doubtful whether it really arose from a corporeal affection, or did not rather result from faults of education, bad practices, corrupt morals, neglect of the mind, superstition or ignorance; the mode of deciding this point wilRead more
If the mental disease be not quite developed, and if it be still somewhat doubtful whether it really arose from a corporeal affection, or did not rather result from faults of education, bad practices, corrupt morals, neglect of the mind, superstition or ignorance; the mode of deciding this point will be, that if it proceed from one or other of the latter causes it will diminish and be improved by sensible friendly exhortations, consolatory arguments, serious representations and sensible advice, whereas a real moral or mental malady, depending on bodily disease, would be speedily aggravated by such a course, the melancholic would become still more dejected, querulous, inconsolable and reserved, the spiteful maniac would thereby become still more exasperated, and the chattering fool would become manifestly more foolish.
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