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

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 )

Acute miliary tuberculosis may produce the impression of a general paresis or of an amentia in Meynert's sense.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

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