MANIA

Categories: Diseases of The Nervous System

This type of insanity means a raving and furious madness. There
are many cases of this kind. The causes are many and may be the same as

those which produce melancholia. In melancholia the shock, etc., causes

depression, while in the mania the causes of mental injury tend to produce

irritation and excitement. In dementia, the causes of insanity tend to

exhaust the body and to mental failure, while in general Paresis "the

shock of disease comes after long and unwise contact with worry, wine and

women." Insufficient sleep often causes mania. It often follows after

exhausting and irritating fevers. Long continued ill health, together with

worry, etc., may cause it.



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To sum up, "mania" may result from any unusual shock or strain upon the

nervous system; or it may come after any unusual mental excitement in

business, politics or in religion. Such are the exciting or stimulating

causes, but we must go back of the presence of worldly misfortune and

trace the tendency to mental disorder through channels of hereditary

influence. "Infants are born every day whose inevitable goal is that of

insanity." What is said in the Bible about sins of the parents is true.