All of the following statements may be considered valid inferences from the passage, EXCEPT:
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Explanatory Answer
Option A cannot be inferred from the passage. The passage does not mention anaesthesiology. It only says that with the introduction of the term 'unconscious', it seemed that this new knowledge could, with further elaboration and exploring, provide a bounty of higher understanding.
Option B can be inferred based on the various examples cited in the second paragraph of the passage.
The passage says that '...before 1790, few if any spoke, in medical terms, of the affinity between creative genius and the hallucinations of the insane...'. That is, eighteenth century thinkers were the first to perceive a connection between creative genius and insanity.
Option D states one of the key ideas of the passage: 'The vocabulary concerning the soul and the mind increased enormously in the course of the nineteenth century. The enrichments of literary and intellectual language led to an altered understanding of the meanings that underlie time-honored expressions and traditional catchwords. At the same time, once coined, powerful new ideas attracted to themselves a whole host of seemingly unrelated issues, practices, and experiences, creating a peculiar network of preoccupations that as a group had not existed before.'
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