Phrenitis

Phrenitis ( from Ancient Greek φρενῖτις ) is a medical diagnosis from antiquity and the Middle Ages. The usual definition read Latin: Delirium Continuum cum febre - Continued delirious with fever. At a delirium as a disorder of the mental faculties joined acute fever added as a characteristic symptom. Starting from the faculty teaching the delirium was due to the fault of Imaginatio and ratiocinatio. Phrenitis was a common diagnosis of lunatics in the late Middle Ages, but was not taken later. Today meningitis is diagnosed as meningitis.

For etymology: The suffix -itis referred to in the medical jargon inflammation, such as inflammation of the meninges above meningitis = ( meninges ). With φρήν ( phren ) were referred in ancient Greece the diaphragm as the seat of the mind (as opposed to today's concept of diaphragm ( διαφράγμα ), which has become the joint for the respiratory muscle layer is meant between the chest and abdomen as a physiological organ ).

When phrenitis so it was assumed that an " inflammation of the mind " vorliege. This name is no longer tenable in the present state of medical research.

• Disease
• Brain
• Medicine ( the Middle Ages)