Not infrequently we have to do with neuropathic and psychopathic natures, and the reality of this is quite unaffected by the fact that the superficial observer is convinced that such persons are exceptionally moral.
These are often neuropathicor psychopathic families, and moreover the early awakening of the sexual life is frequently associated with neuropathic or psychopathic symptoms.
First, let us cite a few cases of what may be called neuropathic deceit--a kind of insanity which shows itself in deceiving.
If a man has a certain habit or trick, it is termed a neurosis or neuropathic habit.
It has already been remarked that hypnotism and hysteria are conditions very nearly allied, and that hysterical neuropathic individuals make the best hypnotic subjects.
The fact of inheritance of the neuropathic constitution may be taken for granted.
To prevent the marriage of normal persons with those carrying a neuropathic taint more knowledge of family stocks must be made available.
Love is proverbially blind, but few normal persons would be rash enough knowingly to join fortunes with a neuropathic or degenerate family stock.
If they persist to older childhood we shall find in an increasing percentage of cases evidence of definite neuropathic tendencies which urgently call for investigation and for a precise appreciation of the nature of the abnormality.
With the child of neuropathic disposition and inheritance matters may not proceed so smoothly.
Like the tiny children with whom we have dealt so far, the behaviour of neuropathic persons is subject wholly to the direction of stronger and more dominant natures.
It is most invincible in children andneuropathic and insane individuals, very powerful among barbarous peoples, and more or less disguised among civilised nations.
Conclusion that a child born of neuropathic inheritance in both ancestral stocks stands, on an average, the chance of being insane four times as great as when only one stock is affected.
The nature of the neuropathic tendency; its transmission in different forms of nervous and mental disease in successive generations.
Seeing that the unfit are at present able to survive; does nature end or mend degenerate stocks, or have the lines of neuropathic inheritance only been partially cut off by this tendency to "anticipation"?
Analysis of pedigrees with a dual neuropathic inheritance of maternal and paternal stocks compared with single neuropathic inheritance.
The fact, however, that the Indians and the insane exhibit a tendency to goitre indicates that behind the influence of the soil or of diet lies a neuropathic constitution, whether this be inherited or acquired.
The neuropathic type is one to which the grasshopper is a burden.
In these neuropathic conditions muscular co-ordination is commonly well preserved--the patient is "drunk in the head and sober in the legs.
Those that become drunkards are usually of a neuropathic constitution, through inheritance or abuse.
I have known and treated several hysterical girls who are now married, and do not show the least neuropathic indications.
Charcot recognized no primordial cause of hysteria beyond heredity, which here plays a more important part than in any other neuropathic condition.
In my opinion, marriage is a sovereign remedy for neuropathic women, who need to find a support in another personality, able to share with them the battle of life.
If, however, they are of at all neuropathic disposition, ungratified sexual emotions may easily lead to various morbid conditions, especially of a hysteroneurasthenic character.
Neuropathic or degenerative conditions sometimes serve to accentuate or reveal ancestral traits that are very ancient in the race.
The neurasthenic and neuropathic states may be regarded as conditions of more or less permanent fatigue.
It should not, therefore, be matter for surprise if careful investigation revealed a traceable neuropathic element at least as frequent as this in the families which produce a man of genius.
Each of the parents separately may have displayed but a minor degree of neuropathic abnormality, but the two strains were fortified by union and the tendency to insanity became more manifest.
It may further, I believe, be argued that the presence of a neuropathic element of this kind in the ancestry of genius is frequently not without a real significance.
The fundamental or ground predisposition is a neuropathic hereditary bias.
At this moment of history there is probably no individual in Europe who has not inherited some portion of a neuropathic stain.
The first kind is inborn, dependent upon hereditary taint and neuropathic diathesis.
The phenomenon of sexual inversion is usually regarded in these books from the point of view of psychopathic or neuropathic derangement, inherited from morbid ancestors, and developed in the patient by early habits of self-abuse.
Crocker speaks of a rare form which he entitles neuropathic plica, and cites two cases, one reported by Le Page whose specimen is in the Royal College of Surgeons Museum; and the other was in a Hindoo described by Pestonji.
Camby relates the case of a neuropathic woman of thirty-eight, two of whose children were killed by lightning in her presence.
In cases of hysteria and other functional affections of the nervous system, an intermittent neuropathic hydrops has been observed--especially in the knee.
Moses was a neuropathic clergyman who in 1872 left the Church and became a teacher.
The more it is repeated the more inveterate it becomes, and the greater the likelihood of its becoming generalised; at the same time the influence of the neuropathic diathesis is intensified.
Basing their conception of the case upon its post-febrile origin and the knowledge of hysterical antecedents, the authors were disposed to regard it as a neuropathic manifestation.
In his family and in his personal antecedents there was little or no neuropathic or psychopathic tendency.
However frequently and warmly the theory of the origin of chorea in a neuropathic predisposition was advocated by Charcot, the fact of its usual evolution consecutive to some toxic or infective process is no less certain.
The family history therefore more than confirms the existence of a grave neuropathic heredity, an unfailing feature in cases of tic.
Dissimilar heredity, in any of its forms, neuropathic or psychopathic, is no less frequently met with, and emphasises the kinship of tic with almost all the psychoses and neuroses.
Stormy weather or a falling barometer frequently exercises a depressing effect on the subjects of tic, but this is habitual in all neuropathic individuals.
A hereditary neuropathic or psychopathic factor is invariable, but similar heredity is the exception.
In the majority of instances there are grave hereditary or personal neuropathic antecedents.
Now, if by degeneration be meant a more or less pronounced hereditary psychopathic or neuropathic tendency which betrays itself by actual physical or psychical stigmata, then tic patients are unquestionably degenerates.
At the same time they are always grafted on a certain neuropathic diathesis akin to that of chorea; in fact, they are nought else than a form of chorea themselves.
This example at least shows that neuropathic parents have nearer ways than inheritance by which they can transfer their disturbances to their children.
I slept with her boy-cousin one night, and her neuropathic aunt, a retired lady physician, bothered us by repeatedly creeping into our room.
He was finally held to be a hereditarily tainted individual with neuropathic constitution.
In this case a young man of somewhat neuropathic heredity had as a youth of 16 or 17, when romping with his young sister's playfellows, experienced sexual sensations on chancing to see their white underlinen.
But in spite of my neuropathic condition I developed intellectually.
At the very least he exhibits a neuropathic sensitiveness to abnormal impressions.
Tics Disorders / in many borderland cases; of < in the hypersensitive as often the only expression Will \ of any neuropathic tendency.
Others are of manic-depressive parentage; some are possibly even of paranoic or dementia præcox lineage; while many of our finest and best had psychopathic or neuropathic heredity.
It is almost impossible in some instances to tell just where the border-line between a neuropathic and a normal constitution lies.
There is considerable evidence that many apparently normal individuals of our average population are in reality carriers of some form of neuropathic defect, some authorities placing the proportion provisionally at over thirty per cent.
So appalling has the number ofneuropathic subjects become in modern times that the matter may well cause even the most thoughtless citizen to pause and consider.
A neuropathic person who manifests certain anti-social activities is sure to be classed as insane, whereas another individual with the same diathesis in a less degree might pass unrecognized.
A Neuropathic Constitution May Express Itself Differently Under Different Conditions.
Many Apparently Normal People Really Carriers ofNeuropathic Defects.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neuropathic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
