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Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Upon the Diseases of the Mind
The Views which he has taken of the proximate cause, forms, and symptoms of those diseases, have obliged him to employ a new nomenclature to _designate some of them. This becomes no less necessary where new opinions are proposed, or new symptoms described in the history of dis eases, than an increase in the number of words, and new combinations of them, become necessary to accompany the increase of the wants and oh jects of civilized society.
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