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| 1: | Historical overview of Psychiatry: 1550 BC - 2010 AD
Egyptians wrote a book of medicine. It is likely a copy of a much older book, but it is quite fascinating to realize just how much the ancients knew about the human body and various diseases. While the cures were no better than a witches brew with "eye of newt", they did understand the various diseases. The only reference to anything coming close to psychiatry is in the section on the heart where anger and sadness are discussed. Biopsychiatrists love to quote the papyrus as proof that the Egyptians believed depression was caused by bodily diseases. But this is simply untrue. In fact the opposite is true. The Egyptians understood that anger and sadness caused body diseases in the heart. The papyrus reads: "When his Heart is afflicted and has tasted sadness, behold his Heart is closed in and darkness is in his body because of anger which is eating up his Heart." (The Egyptian Medical Ebers Papyrus: 1550 BC) Jumping forward 3000 years... In 1558 AD, William Bullein stated that rejection ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-overview.htm | Size: 332K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | Peace of Mind and Health of Body, Lewis Southcomb, 1750 AD Apothecaries that will be true both to Physician and Patient." Southcomb clearly rejects all the moral treatments and torture practiced in Bedlam on the residents there. He also rejected that the worst cases of insanity should have any negative stigma attached to them. Like many in chemical psychiatry today, Southcomb did not hold the insane person responsible any more than if he had a fever. "And, if it be no Disgrace to he afflicted with one Disease, why should it be so to be afflicted with another" (Peace of Mind and Health of Body, Lewis Southcomb, 1750 AD) "This was the only book on 'the Hypochondriacal, or Hysterical Passion . . . Melancholy . . . and Madness' by a country clergyman who had `study'd Physick in London' and combined the cure of souls with that of bodies. Like those other `clerical mad-doctors' John Ashborne and Francis Willis senior before and after him, Southcomb specialised in 'nervous Diseases' because he considered it 'the greatest of all Charities . . . to ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/peace-of-mind-and-health-of-body-lewis-southcomb-1750ad.htm | Size: 7K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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