Corporeal occasional causes of madness

The corporeal occasional causes of madness are as varied and numerous as the mental; and many of them, by their frequently repeated action on some systems induce a predisposition. Excessive venereal indulgences, intoxication, heat, previous fever, suppressed evacuations, repelled eruptions, old sores and rains dried up, injuries done to the head, profuse haemorrhages, painful protracted parturition, tumours, and peculiarity of shape of the parts about the brain, are the principal among many other corporeal exciting causes of mental disease.

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Practical Observations on Insanity, p. 36.