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Quotation from Mental Maladies by Jean-Etienne Dominique Esquirol
“Insanity, or mental alienation, is a cerebral affection, ordinarily chronic, and without fever ; characterized by disorders of sensibility, understanding, in- telligence, and will”
Mental Maladies, Insanity, Symptoms of Insanity, trans. E. K. Hunt (1845)
Esquirol begins his general account of insanity with a definition that joins brain disease to disturbances of mental function.
Citation: "Insanity, or mental alienation, is a cerebral affection, ordinarily chronic, and without fever ; characterized by disorders of sensibility, understanding, in- telligence, and will" — Jean-Etienne Dominique Esquirol, Mental Maladies, Insanity, Symptoms of Insanity, trans. E. K. Hunt (1845). (id mental-maladies-q1)
Portrait: Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, Painted by Ch. Bazin, lithography by de Delpech, Public domain.
