Admission Details for Patient: Margaret Owen (2459)
Gender: Female Age: 52
Marital Status: Single Religion: Calvinist Methodist
Occupation: Sempstress
Address: Beaumaris, Anglesey
Date of Admission: May 30, 1875
Date of Discharge: December 21, 1875
Discharge Category: Recovered
Disease: Chronic mania
Supposed Cause: Heredity
Medical Certificate:
Extravagant ideas on the subject of religion. A constant wish to impart imaginary secrets to another. Her general demeanour too is unmistakeably that of an insane person. Violence to her sister whom she has struck. Robt. & Edwd. Owen MRCS Eng., LSA, Bulkeley Place Beaumaris.
Approximate duration of present attack: About a fortnight
Number of Previous Attacks: 999
Number of Previous Admissions: 0
Number of Subsequent Admissions: 0
Total Number of Admissions: 1
Relatives affected: Father's sister idiotic
Number of Previous Attacks: 999
Epileptic: No
Suicidal: No
Dangerous: Not to be trusted
Clean Habit: Yes
Food Refusal: No
Sleep Habit: Bad
Destructive Habit: Has been but not now
Disposition: Sober industrious and kind
Education:
Physical/Mental State at Examination: Feeble condition, middle sized, nervous temperament. Emaciated, nearly toothless, eats very badly, always been a small eater. Bowels open. Tongue clean. Heart's impulse normal. Slight arterial atheroma. Respiratory murmur over apices somewhat loud. A little bronchophony. Was completely incoherent on admission and was full of religious delusions. Said that she had conquered the devil and that she had seen the Holy Ghost. Memory very much impaired and loss of identity present. Says that she is at home with her people and that I am some William Jones, a friend of hers. Has been always more or less weak minded but the mental derangement has taken a more active form only recently. She has green irides with dilated but equal pupils. Has always lived with her sister who could always manage her until recently. Placed in No 4 Ward.
Current Diagnosis: Schizophrenia (F20.1)
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