Hippocrates Mental Illness Research Paper

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Hippocrates had long proposed that mental disorders had some physical cause and when one displayed a mental disturbance, he would prescribe exercise, tranquility, and celibacy. However, it was not until the 1800’s that a clear link was made between a physical disease process and mental illness. This discovery then paved the way for further exploration of how the brain malfunctioning could result in a mental illness. The breakthrough finally arrived in the 1825 it was then a direct cause between a physical illness and a mental illness was made. General paresis was an illness that produced paralysis, insanity, and, typically one died from this disorder within two to five years. This mental illness was recognized as a unique and specific psychiatric

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