Heart-Lesions in Relation to Mental Symptoms *Read at a meeting of the Dorset and West Hants Branch of the British Medical Association.

insanity as a bodily disease,?for Hippocrates taught that mental diseases were due to the circulation of black bile in the blood,?our present knowledge of the physical causation of mental disease is sadly deficient and most imperfect. Within a comparatively short lapse of time, I have been fortunate enough to meet with a series of cases, in many of which the close sympathetic connection between mind and body was impressively and forcibly illustrated, and where, from the first, the symptoms were of a bodilymental nature.