amentia
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Binswanger states that tuberculosis, aside from miliary tuberculosis or meningitis, produces no mental disorder except phenomena of the amentia of exhaustion.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
Acute miliary tuberculosis may produce the impression of a general paresis or of an amentia in Meynert's sense.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
Cretinism is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
In dementia the mental aberration does not occur until the mind has become fully developed, thus differing from amentia, which is congenital or comes on very early in life.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
The former are labouring under dementia, not amentia.
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack
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