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The Psychology of the Emotions

Note 130 — Chapter I · THE INSTINCT OF CONSERVATION IN ITS PHYSIOLOGICAL FORM.

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For details, see Campbell “On the Appetite in Insanity,” in the Journal of Mental Science, July 1886, pp. 193 et seq., and Belmondo, “Pervertimenti dell’istinto di nutrizione,” in Tamburini’s Rivista, 1888, pp. 1 et seq., where is cited the case of an insane patient in whose stomach were found 1841 objects, such as nails, bits of lead, and the like, weighing in all eleven (English) pounds, ten ounces.

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