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Madness

The condition of being mad insanity lunacy...

Mania

Violent derangement of mind madness insanity Cf Delirium...

Mattoid

A person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or degeneracy...

Gentle pleasant kind soft bland clement hence moderate in degree or quality the opposite of harsh severe irritating violent disagreeable etc applied to persons and things as a mild disposition a mild eye a mild air a mild medicine a mild insanity...

Paranoid schizophrenia

Paranoid schizophrenia, in the vast majority of cases, starts in the fourth decade and develops insidiously. Suspiciousness is the characteristic symptom of the early stage. Ideas of reference occur, which gradually develops into delusions of persecution. Auditory hallucinations follow, which in the beginning, start as sound or noises in the ears, but are afterwards changes into abuses or insults. Delusions are at first indefinite, but gradually they become fixed and definite, to lead the patient to believe that he is persecuted by some unknown person or some superhuman agency. He believes that his food is being poisoned. Some noxious gases are blown into his room, and people are plotting against him to ruin him. Disturbances of general sensation given rise to hallucinations, which are attributed to the effects of hypnotism, electricity wireless telegraphy or atomic agencies. The patient gets very irritate and excited owing to these painful and disagreeable hallucinations and delusions...

Pellagrous

Pertaining to or affected with or attendant on pellagra as pellagrous insanity...

Abnormal law

Abnormal law, means the law as it applies to persons who are under legal disabilities such as infancy, alienage, insanity, criminality and converture, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5....

Amentia

Amentia, insanity, idiotcy....

Asylums Board

Asylums Board. The Metropolitan Asylums Board, constituted under the (English) Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, dealt with the administration relating to cases of insanity (inter alia) among the poor in London. The Lancashire Asylums Board, established by the Lancashire County Council under statutory powers, carried out similar duties in Lancashire. These boards and their powers were transferred to the London County Council or the respective local authorities by the Local Government Act, 1928 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 17)....

Kleptomania

Kleptomania [fr., Gk., to steal; and, frenzy], insanity in the form of an irresistible propensity to steal. Consult Taylor's Med. Jur....

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