[Ads-l] Antedating of "Megalomania"

[Shapiro, Fred]

megalomania (OED 1885)

1881 _Alienist and Neurologist_ 2: 40 ff. (ProQuest)

We cannot see that these should demand the introduction of a new nosological term; neither do we think that the one suggested by Dr. Melenedez -- _megalomania_ -- possesses any distinctive merit. ... symptoms of megalomania were noted without any of those somatic phenomena which accompany paralytic insanity of free progress in its invasion.

Fred Shapiro

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