amentia

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Illegitimacy is, however, the larger problem in rural amentia.

From Rural Problems of Today by Groves, Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford)

In conclusion, he condemned them all for madmen, fools, idiots, asses, O stulti, quaenam haec est amentia?

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert

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

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 )

The former are labouring under dementia, not amentia.

From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack