Closely related to the periodical insanities are the epileptic states which play so large a part in many of the phenomena presented by the degenerates.
Tobacco insanities are comparatively rare in smokers, but are common in snuffers and still oftener in chewers.
From what has already been said about epilepsy, it and the periodical insanities are in no small degree the effect of mal-development of the fore brain as compared with the centres of organic life.
The religion of science will infiltrate and penetrate and permeate by its capillary action the barbaric superstitions, the ridiculous rites, the unsanitary insanities of our social systems.
The effect of the hormone system upon the vegetative apparatus may create the more obscure insanities and quasi-insanities.
Of their insanities and their lot after this state some particulars will be given in the treatise on The Last Judgement and the Destruction of Babylon.
For while he lived in the world he was sane in outward appearance, since by means of externals he made himself appear to be a rational man; but when he has been stripped of his externals his insanities are revealed.
In like manner when the light of heaven flows into the truths of good it imparts intelligence and wisdom; but when it flows into the falsities of evil it is turned into insanities and phantasies of various kinds.
Insanities associated with or caused by Alcoholic and Drug intoxication: Delirium Tremens, Chronic Alcoholic Insanity, Dipsomania, Morphinism.
The most general physical disorder common to the onset of all the insanities is the failure of nutrition, i.
In acuteinsanities rashes are not uncommon, and in chronic conditions, especially conditions of depression, crops of papules occur on the face, chest and shoulders.
The memory for both recent and remote events is impaired or abolished in all acute insanities which are characterized by confusion and loss or impairment of consciousness.
Other insanities may, it is true, arise at this period, but those which occur within the first fourteen days after parturition are generally of infective origin.
Dr Rawes, medical superintendent of St Luke's hospital, says that of insanities traceable to influenza melancholia is twice as frequent as all other forms of insanity put together.
The insanities are sharply divided into two great classes--the Congenital and the Acquired.
In the present age the pleasurable insanities are most frequently induced by superstitious hopes of heaven, by sentimental love, and by personal vanity.
The most convenient distribution of insanitieswill be into general, as mania mutabilis, studium inane, and vigilia; and into partial insanities.
Hence the analogy between the insanities of the mind, and the convulsions of the muscles described in the preceding genus, is curiously exact.
In general there is more doubt about the inheritability of some of the insanities than about cases of mental deficiency.
Authorities make a sharp distinction between insanities on the one hand and feeble-mindedness on the other.
Unquestionably in cases of imbecility it is easier than in insanitiesto pass conclusive judgment on the inheritability of the condition in a large class of cases.
In alcoholic insanities heredity is a potent factor.
Not All Insanitiesof the Same Eugenical Significance.
The systematized insanities are essentially chronic and recover only exceptionally" (Practical Manual of Mental Medicine, page 54).
With these men, adulterous love and itsinsanities and pleasures are of similar degrees.
Similarly with regard to her severely censured passion for dress and desire to please, which reach their frightful acme in the insanities of fashion, and often throw fathers and husbands into great straits and embarrassments.
The follies and insanitiesof fashion, promoted by wastefulness and tastelessness, also cease.
The moral insanities which strike us with horror, compassion, or ridicule, however they may differ in their effects, have frequently one common origin; an early false association of ideas.
The insanities of ambition, avarice, and vanity, originate in early mistaken associations.
No psychiatrist will work without psychological tools when he deals with the exultations of the maniac and the depressions of the melancholic, with the hallucinations of persecution or the erotic insanities of the paranoiac.
It is indeed a frequent symptom in paranoia and other insanities that the patient who feels abnormal organic sensations and abnormal unaccountable impulses interprets them as influences of a distant enemy.
What is true as regards the thesis is that some of the central insanities of religion, such as the cult of human sacrifice, seem to have been propagated in all directions from an Asiatic centre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insanities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
