Abstract
Monomania is a term that has long been in use in medicine, but the signification that has been attached to it is rather vague on the part of the general public, especially so in consequence of the fact that it is supposed to denote a form of insanity in which a person is perfectly sane and sound in mind and body on every subject but one, and upon that particular subject he entertains some irrational ideas that dominate his thoughts. That is the popular idea of monomania, but it is well known by intelligent physicians and alienists who have given much time to the study of these cases that there is no such thing possible as a person perfectly sound in mind and body and sane upon all subjects but one. It is recognized by alienists that cases which have been called monomania are persons who are really
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