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Melancholia
IVt melancholia is a disease unique in the fact that every human heing wh0 }las reached that stage of his existence which can called the battle of life can enter into and appreciate to a ?reater or less degree the subjective sensations of the sufferer 0rn this complaint, by reason of having, however temporarily, Passed through periods of mental depression himself. Lucky lrideed is the man who c...
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Depression, most people know, used to be termed ‘‘melancholia’’. . . Melancholia would still appear to be a far more apt and evocative word for the blacker forms of the disorder, but it was usurped by a noun with a bland tonality and lacking any magisterial presence, used indiVerently to describe an economic decline or a rut in the ground, a true wimp of a word for such a major illness . . . Th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1939
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4097.127