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A History Of Delusions
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Author : Victoria Shepherd
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-06-02
A History Of Delusions written by Victoria Shepherd and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-02 with Psychology categories.
‘Fascinating and compassionate’ Horatio Clare The King of France – thinking he was made of glass – was terrified he might shatter…and he wasn’t alone. After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidemic of Napoleons piled into France’s asylums. Throughout the nineteenth century, dozens of middle-aged women tried to convince their physicians that they were, in fact, dead. For centuries we’ve dismissed delusions as something for doctors to sort out behind locked doors. But delusions are more than just bizarre quirks – they hold the key to collective anxieties and traumas. In this groundbreaking history, Victoria Shepherd uncovers stories of delusions from medieval times to the present day and implores us to identify reason in apparent madness.
Lessons From The History Of Medical Delusions
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Author : Worthington Hooker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1850
Lessons From The History Of Medical Delusions written by Worthington Hooker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1850 with Delirium categories.
Lessons From The History Of Medical Delusions Classic Reprint
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Author : Worthington Hooker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-07
Lessons From The History Of Medical Delusions Classic Reprint written by Worthington Hooker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Medical categories.
Excerpt from Lessons From the History of Medical Delusions The Trustees of the Fiske Fund, at the Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Medical Society, held at Providence, on the 26th of June, A.D. 1850 announced that they had awarded to the author of the Dissertation bearing the motto, "Fallax non raro Experientia, si Rationis ductu fuerit destituta: Qua propter, nisi mutuam sibi lucem communicent, quam erroris causam pr bebunt." the premium of fifty dollars, by them offered, for the best Dissertation on the following subject, viz: "The History of Medical Delusions of the present and former Times." Upon breaking the seal of the accompanying packet, they ascertained its author to he Worthington Hooker, M.D., of Norwich, Conn. In awarding the premium for this Dissertation, neither the Trustees, nor the Rhode Island Medical Society, hold themselves responsible for the doctrines herein inculcated, or opinions advanced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds
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Author : Charles MacKay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09-21
Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds written by Charles MacKay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-21 with categories.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowdsby Charles MacKayPopular delusions began so early, spread so widely, and have lasted so long, that instead of two or three volumes, fifty would scarcely suffice to detail their history. The present may be considered more of a miscellany of delusions than a history--a chapter only in the great and awful book of human folly which yet remains to be written, and which Porson once jestingly said he would write in five hundred volumes! Interspersed are sketches of some lighter matters,--amusing instances of the imitativeness and wrongheadedness of the people, rather than examples of folly and delusion.Religious matters have been purposely excluded as incompatible with the limits prescribed to the present work; a mere list of them would alone be sufficient to occupy a volume.
A Colorful History Of Popular Delusions
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Author : Robert E. Bartholomew
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2015-10-13
A Colorful History Of Popular Delusions written by Robert E. Bartholomew and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with History categories.
This eclectic history of unusual crowd behavior describes a rich assortment of mass phenomena ranging from the amusing and quirky to the shocking and deplorable. What do fads, crazes, manias, urban legends, moral panics, riots, stampedes, and other mass expressions of emotion have in common? By creating a typology of such behavior, past and present, the authors show how common extraordinary group reactions to fear or excitement are. And they offer insights into how these sometimes dangerous mob responses can be avoided. We may not be surprised to read about the peculiarities of the European Middle Ages, when superstition was commonplace: like the meowing nuns of France, "tarantism" (a dancing mania) in Italy, or the malicious anti-Semitic poison-well scares. But similar phenomena show up in our own era. Examples include the social-networking hysteria of 2012, which resulted in uncontrollable twitching by teenage girls in Leroy, NY; the "phantom bus terrorist" of 2004 in Vancouver, Canada; and the itching outbreak of 2000 in South Africa. Vivid, detailed, and thoroughly researched, this is a fascinating overview of collective human behavior in its many unusual forms.
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Author : Charles Mackay
language : en
Publisher: Nuvision Publications
Release Date : 2007-07
Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions written by Charles Mackay and has been published by Nuvision Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
This book by Charles MacKay from 1841 is the first to record the history of speculation hypes or financial bubbles worldwide. The Dutch Tulipomania is the first one ever documented. During the last century this popular book was reprinted numerously, especially after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the internet and e-commerce bubble of recent years.
Lessons From The History Of Medical Delusions
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Author : Worthington Hooker
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Lessons From The History Of Medical Delusions written by Worthington Hooker and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... Theories have given rise to the numberless modes and systems of practice in medicine. All of these are wrong, and should be discarded as worse than useless, even the best of them. There is error, gross error, in every mode of practice, because it necessarily excludes valuable facts. The only proper mode of practice, if it can be termed a mode, is the eclectic, which simply takes facts from whatever quarter they may come, whether they belong to any system or not, and uses them in the cure of disease. I wish to be distinctly understood on this point. I have not said that there is no truth in any of the modes, or systems, which have prevailed. There is some truth in most of them, not to say all. And the true eclectic will sift out from them whatever of truth he may find, and use it, whether they have had a professional or a non-professional origin. There is some truth in Hydropathy; some, a little, in Thompsonianism; some in Calomelism, as it may be termed, for calomel is used by some in somewhat the same exclusive way as water is by the Hydropath, and lobelia and red pepper and steam, are by the Thompsonian. Of Homoeopathy, popular as it is among the refined, the learned and the wealthy, I must make an exception. There is absolutely no truth in this system. In this mode of practice, if followed out in good faith, there is nothing done, though there is a show of doing much. Only when Homoeopathists forsake their principles, as all of them, even to Hahnemann, sometimes do, and give Allopathic doses, that they have anything relevant in their records of the effects of remedies. But even then, it is impossible to pick out what is relevant from the profusion of shapeless rubbish which is gathered by their indiscriminate mode of observation....
Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds
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Author : Charles MacKay
language : en
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Release Date : 2008-07-01
Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds written by Charles MacKay and has been published by IndyPublish.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple, and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity. At an early age in the annals of Europe its population lost their wits about the Sepulchre of Jesus, and crowded in frenzied multitudes to the Holy Land: another age went mad for fear of the Devil, and offered up hundreds of thousands of victims to the delusion of witchcraft. At another time, the many became crazed on the subject of the Philosopher's Stone, and committed follies till then unheard of in the pursuit. It was once thought a venial offence in very many countries of Europe to destroy an enemy by slow poison. Persons who would have revolted at the idea of stabbing a man to the heart, drugged his pottage without scruple. Ladies of gentle birth and manners caught the contagion of murder, until poisoning, under their auspices, became quite fashionable. Some delusions, though notorious to all the world, have subsisted for ages, flourishing as widely among civilized and polished nations as among theearly barbarians with whom they originated, -- that of duelling, for instance, and the belief in omens and divination of the future, which seem to defy the progress of knowledge to eradicate entirely from the popular mind. Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. To trace the history of the most prominent of these delusions is the object of the present pages. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Lessons From The History Of Medical Delusions
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Author : Worthington Hooker
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
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Discover the fascinating and often bizarre history of medical delusions, from miracle cures to misguided treatments, in this thought-provoking volume. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions Vol Ii
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Author : Charles Mackay
language : en
Publisher: NuVision Publications
Release Date : 2007-07
Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions Vol Ii written by Charles Mackay and has been published by NuVision Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07 with categories.
In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple, and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity. At an early age in the annals of Europe its population lost their wits about the Sepulchre of Jesus, and crowded in frenzied multitudes to the Holy Land: another age went mad for fear of the Devil, and offered up hundreds of thousands of victims to the delusion of witchcraft. At another time, the many became crazed on the subject of the Philosopher's Stone, and committed follies till then unheard of in the pursuit. It was once thought a venial offence in very many countries of Europe to destroy an enemy by slow poison. Persons who would have revolted at the idea of stabbing a man to the heart, drugged his pottage without scruple. Ladies of gentle birth and manners caught the contagion of murder, until poisoning, under their auspices, became quite fashionable. Some delusions, though notorious to all the world, have subsisted for ages, flourishing as widely among civilized and polished nations as among the early barbarians with whom they originated, -- that of duelling, for instance, and the belief in omens and divination of the future, which seem to defy the progress of knowledge to eradicate entirely from the popular mind. Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. To trace the history of the most prominent of these delusions is the object of the present pages. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.