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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: | Sin was viewed as the cause (etiology) of mental illness Christian Reil suggested that the Cat Piano was the cure for insanity. It worked by seating the insane in front of the Cat Piano, as someone played, sanity would be restored. Reil suggested this clever and imaginative hyperbole, in order to drive home his point, that insanity was a spiritual problem not a bodily problem. Doctors before the 19th century, knew less than a typical thirteen year old today, who dissected a few raccoons on his back yard picnic table and experimented with his chemistry set he got for Christmas! Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Historical Survey of Mental illness etiology 1500 - 1900 Introduction: The majority view of history for the cause of insanity, has always been sin and life choices, not the body. Here is the master summary of the historical Survey of Mental illness etiology 1500 - 1900 Historically, there were three groups of etiologies for insanity: 1. Those who believed sin directly caused insanity. 2. Those who ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-causes-etiology-historic-pre-1858ad.htm | Size: 81K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | Observations on the Nature, Kinds, Causes, and Prevention of ... Infirmary with him as its first physician. Unlike Perfect (1787) who aimed at no more than presenting a variety of cases to illustrate his cures, and Pargeter (1792) who set out to show the possibilities of management by the direct human approach, Arnold wrote a much more ambitious and systematic treatise, really a textbook. It was the first two-volume work on psychiatry in this country and modern also for the point Arnold made of giving accurate references for all his quotations having himself 'frequently experienced much inconvenience; often a great waste, and sometimes a total loss, both of time, and labour; by a loose, and negligent mode of reference from one author to another'. Volume I was devoted to classification with a chapter on postmortem appearances; volume II dealt with the causes of insanity. A third volume on treatment to which I and II were preparatory appeared independently as Observations on the management of the insane; and particularly on the agency and importance ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/observations-on-the-nature-kinds-causes-and-prevention-of-insanity-lunacy-or-madness-thomas-arnold-1782ad.htm | Size: 16K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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