Chapter 103

1172

localization of lesions in,

79

Medullary centres of the vaso-motor system,

1250

Megalopsia in nervous diseases,

40

Melancholia,

155

agitata,

158

cerebral nutrition in,

775

in alcoholism,

631

in children,

158

in general paralysis of the insane,

188

Membranes, spinal, congestion of,

746

Memory, loss of, significance of, in nervous diseases,

28-30

Ménière's disease,

422

Meningeal cerebral hemorrhage,

710

Diagnosis,

714

Etiology,

711

Pathological anatomy,

713

Prognosis,

715

Symptoms,

712

Synonyms,

710

Treatment,

715

Meningeal spinal hemorrhage,

754

Meningitis, acute,

716

and chronic, following thermic fever,

399

spinal,

749

chronic spinal,

752

M

ENINGITIS

, T

UBERCULAR

,

723

Definition, synonyms, and history,

723

Diagnosis,

732

from acute simple meningitis,

733

from eclampsia,

734

from gastro-intestinal affections,

734

from hydrencephaloid disease,

734

from typhoid fever,

733

Etiology,

724

Age and sex, influence of,

725

Exciting causes,

725

Hereditary tendency to tuberculosis and scrofulosis,

724

Season, influence of,

725

Pathological anatomy and duration,

729

Prophylaxis,

736

Prognosis,

735

Symptoms,

725

Abdomen, state of,

726

Cerebral,

726-729

Constipation,

725-727

,

729

Cry,

726

,

727

Decubitus,

727

Eyes, state of,

726-729

Headache,

725-727

in the adult,

737-739

Paralysis and convulsions,

727

,

728

Prodromal,

725

Pulse, respiration, and temperature,

726-728

Pupils, state of,

726-729

Sensitiveness to light,

725-727

Strabismus,

727

Stupor,

726-729

Tongue, state of,

726

,

729

Vomiting,

725

,

729

Treatment,

735

Bromides, chloral, and hyoscyamus,

736

Counter-irritation, value of,

736

Diet in,

736

Iodide of potassium, use,

736

Menorrhagia and amenorrhœa in the insane, treatment of,

136

Menstrual disorders, influence on causation of hysteria,

220

in the opium habit,

656

,

658

insanity,

173

Menstruation, influence on recovery from epilepsy,

498

on causation of cerebral hyperæmia,

766

of spinal hyperæmia,

802

painful, influence on causation of hystero-epilepsy,

293

Mental condition in acute spinal meningitis,

750

in atrophy of the brain,

994

,

996

in chorea,

445

in chronic hydrocephalus,

742

,

743

in delirium tremens,

628

in disseminated spinal sclerosis,

877

in hemiplegia,

956

in hysteria,

230

in tabes dorsalis,

836

in tumors of the brain,

1037

of the spine,

1096

Defects and degeneration, states of,

138

Deterioration, primary,

70

M

ENTAL

D

ISEASES

,

99

Insanity

,

99

Causation,

113

Age, influence of,

116

,

117

Alcohol and nerve-stimulants, abuse of,

116

,

119

Drugs, abuse of,

119

Emotions and mental strain,

117

,

118

Classification of,

105

,

109

Definition of,

99-105

Diagnosis of,

123-125

Exciting causes,

118-120

Heredity,

113

Ill-health, disease, etc.,

116

,

117

,

119

Intermarriage,

115

,

116

Occupation,

118

Pulmonary consumption, relation to,

119

Sex,

118

Social position,

117

,

118

Vicious early training,

116

History,

109

Morbid anatomy and pathology,

121-123

Prevalence,

110-113

Prognosis,

125

Mortality,

126

Percentage of recoveries,

126

Treatment,

127

Asylums, methods of commitment to,

134

objection to,

127

,

130

question of removal to,

127-135

Galvanism, use,

137

Home, removal from, question of,

128

,

133

,

135

Home,

131


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