Title: The blot upon the brain : studies in history and psychology.
Authors: Ireland, William W. 1832-1909
Publisher: Bell & Bradfute,
Year: 1885
Subjects: Mental Disorders; Hallucinations; Hallucinations and illusions; Brain; Insanity (Law)
Contents: On hallucinations, especially of sight and hearing.--The hallucinations of Mohammed, Luther, and Swedenborg.--On the character and hallucinations of Joan of Arc.--The insanity of power.--The history of the hereditary neurosis of the royal family of Spain.--On St. Francis Xavier, the apostle of the Indies.--On fixed ideas.--Folie à deux-a mad family.--Unconscious cerebration.--Thought without words and the relations of words to thought.--Left-handedness and right-headedness.--On mirror-writing.--On the dual functions of the double brain.