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abscess afterwards aggravated amputated ankle arise ation attack attended axilla bladder bones bougie bowels brain cartilages cause cicatrix circumstances cold colour complains of pain consequence cure degree disposition to hysteria examination finger foot fore-arm Forty ounces frequently hæmorrhage hip joint hospital hysterical affections Hysterical pains hysterical retention hysterical symptoms inflammation injury instances intermitting irritation kind knee lecture liable liniment lower limbs median nerve mind morbid sensibility mucous membrane muscles muscular spasms natural nerve nervous affections nervous pains nervous system neuralgia observation occasioned occur oesophagus operation paralysis patient complains peculiar pressure produced rectum relieved remedies renal plexus retention of urine sciatic nerve sensation severe pain side skin sometimes spasm spasmodic spine stricture subsided suffered sulphate of quinine supposed surgeon symp symptoms are referred tender testicle thigh tion treatment tumour tympanitic ulnar nerve unfrequently urethra urine usually vertebræ violent wound healed wry neck young lady
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Page 74 - ... point out the difference between the plans usually pursued in the bringing up of the two sexes. The boys are sent at an early age to school, where a large portion of their time is passed in taking exercise in the open air ; while their sisters are confined to heated rooms, taking little exercise out ot doors, and often none at all except in a carriage.
Page 48 - that it is not that the muscles are incapable of obeying the act of volition, but that the function of volition is suspended.
Page 37 - I do not hesitate to declare that, among the higher classes of society, at least four-fifths of the female patients who are commonly supposed to labour under diseases of the joints, labour under Hysteria and nothing else.
Page 86 - ... immediately lost all her symptoms on being thrown from a donkey which she was riding...
Page 18 - ... in the face, at first the parts, to which the pain was referred, retained their natural appearance, but ultimately they became swollen, from an effusion of serum into the cellular texture, and so exquisitely tender that they would not bear the slightest touch.
Page 74 - ... among their female children. " If you would go further, so as to make them understand in what their error consists ; what they ought to do, and what they ought to leave undone, you need only point out the difference between the plans usually pursued in the bringing up of the two sexes. The boys are sent at an early age to school, where a large portion of their time is...
Page 38 - ... she shrinks involuntarily from the mere approach of the hand; but, nevertheless, upon a careful examination, these morbid conditions will be found to exist more in the skin than in the deep-seated parts. As Sir Benjamin Brodie, who first directed attention to these important affections, observes : " If you pinch the skin, lifting it at the same time off the subjacent parts, the patient complains more than when you forcibly squeeze the head of the thigh bone into the socket of the acetabulum.
Page 63 - Brodie has recorded a case very similar to this. A young married lady, who was liable to ordinary attacks of hysteria, complained of a tender spot on the anterior part of the abdomen, a little below the ensiform cartilage. The slightest pressure of the finger on it caused excessive pain, and was followed by violent agitation of the whole person, bearing a nearer resemblance to the convulsive motions of chorea than to any thing else, and continuing for several minutes.
Page 31 - A lady laboured under an inflammation of her leg. The whole leg was swollen from the toes to the knee, the skin being red, painful and tender. These symptoms had existed for several weeks ; the usual remedies had been employed, and no amendment had taken place ; yet the inflammation did not proceed further, and there were no signs of suppuration. At last I observed that the symptoms varied considerably ; that sometimes the redness, pain, and swelling had nearly subsided, that at other times they...
Page 12 - Now, however, he complained of another symptom ; he had a difficulty of making water, and a purulent discharge from the urethra. He had laboured under a stricture of the urethra for many years, and had occasionally used bougies. Of late the stricture had caused more inconvenience than usual ; but he had abstained from mentioning it, thinking that it would be better that he should (if possible) be relieved of the pain in the foot before any treatment was adopted on account of the stricture. Under...