Linnæus's species of mental diseases



IDEAL
  • delirium    acute and transitory with fever
  • paraphrosyne    acute and periodic without fever
  • amentia    chronic and innocuous
  • dæmonia    chronic, partial and furious, from demons
  • vesania    chronic, partial and tranquil
  • melancholia    chronic, partial, gloomy and meditative


    • IMAGINARY
  • syringmos    perception of a false ringing sound
  • phantasia    perception of a false visible object
  • vertigo    perception of false circumgyration
  • panophobia    imagination of false evil in solitude
  • hypochondriasis    imagining a deadly fate from a slight disorder
  • somnambulismus    strong imagination in a sleeping person giving rise to       voluntary movements


    • PATHETIC
  • citta    desire to eat what is not food
  • bulimia    insatiable desire for food
  • polydipsia    continuous desire for drink
  • satyriasis    enormous desire for sex
  • erotomania    indecent desire for lovers
  • nostalgia    desire for country and relatives
  • tarantismus    desire for dancing, often caused by an insect bite
  • rabies    desire to bite and lacerate the harmless, often caused by a       mammal bite
  • hydrophobia    aversion to drink
  • cacositia    aversion to food, accompanied by horror of it
  • antipathia    aversion to a particular object
  • anxietas    aversion to ordinary things, with pain in the heart




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