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  • 21Cullen, William —    (1710–1790)    The great Enlightenment systematizer of illnesses, especially psychiatric, Cullen was born in Hamilton, Scotland, into the family of an estate official of the Duke of Hamilton. After years of study and itinerant work as a… …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 22Hypomania —    (1881)    In a monograph on mania (called Mania [die Manie]), Emanuel Ernst Mendel (1839–1907), who headed a wellknown private nervous clinic in the Berlin suburb of Pankow and was said to be the last psychiatrist to master completely both… …

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  • 23Hypomania and Mania in the Modern Sense —    (1881)    In a monograph on mania (called Mania [die Manie]), Emanuel Ernst Mendel (1839–1907), who headed a wellknown private nervous clinic in the Berlin suburb of Pankow and was said to be the last psychiatrist to master completely both… …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 24Pinel, Philippe —    (1745–1826)    One of the founders of modern psychiatry, Pinel was born into a medical family in a village near Castres in southwest France, graduating as doctor of medicine from Toulouse in 1773. In 1778, he came up to Paris, making a meager… …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 25monomania — n. Hallucination, illusion, delusion, self deception, partial insanity, insanity on one subject …

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  • 26delusion — A belief based upon a concept for which there is no reasonable foundation and which is ordinarily incredible to a sane person. Kimberly s Appeal, 68 Conn 428, 36 A 847. An extreme misconception; partial insanity, sometimes called delusional… …

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  • 27Crack — Crack, n. 1. A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass. [1913 Webster] 2. Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense. [1913… …

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  • 28rock — Crack Crack, n. 1. A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass. [1913 Webster] 2. Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 29Nikola Tesla — Tesla, aged 37, 1893, photo by Sar …

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