The book contains ten lectures. These lectures make up the chapters of the book. The first chapter, which is called Aetiology. Medical examination (Aetiologie. Ziekenonderzoek), gives an introduction of possible causes for mental diseases and instructions for diagnosing these diseases. The next six chapters are about specific diseases, in each chapter a couple of related diseases are discussed: * hallucinations, illusions, affects, moods, delusions, hallucinational confusion and paranoia. * psychical feelings, psychical perverse feelings, idiocy and melancholy * mania, insanity, mental impairment, stupor and progressive paralysis. * senile dementia, deficient judgement, imbecility, idiocy and cretinism, obsessions and compulsions * chronic alcoholism, dipsomania and the working of alcohol by psychopathic predisposition * morphinism, opium and cocaine abuse, lead poisoning, physical changes because of phthisis pluminum, hysteria, epilepsy, organic brain diseases, lues cerebralis, psychical infection, children's crusade, dinomania, tarantismus. The next chapter is named Therapy, this chapter mentions treatments for mental illness in general and treatments for some specific diseases. The chapter thereafter is about the laws related to mentally ill people in the Netherlands and in the East Indies. Finally, the last chapter contains medical reports in Dutch, German and French and gives information about crimes and accountability in case of people with mental diseases. At the end, former mental hospitals in the Netherlands and the East Indies are listed.
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