Hysteria, 6 lects, Issue 59A. Simpson & Company, 1867 - 103 pages |
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60 DUANE abscess action adopted agents arterial attack attended bark blisters blood body brandy breast calomel cancer causes of disease chloroform cicatrix circulation condition constitution contraction daily debility depletive derangement diagnosis effort elbow-joint erysipelas evidence evil examples exercise failed fatigue fingers girl heat hemiplegia Hysteria hysteric affections hysteric disease increased inflammation influence injury inquiry involved irritation joint LECTURE leeches limb liver loss lumbar vertebra malady mammary ment mental emotion mind months morbid muscles muscular nature nerves nervous centre nervous system opinion opium organic disease pain paraplegia paroxysmal patient persons Physician port wine pressure principle profession pulse quantity real disease recovery reduce refer remarkable remedies RHINOSCOPY seat sensation SIMPSON SIMPSON & CO spinal cord spine spinous processes stimulants structures supposed surgeon surgical symptoms tion tonic treated treatment of disease vascular system vertebræ vigor vital powers walk weakness weeks wine young female young lady
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Page 4 - BY WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System In the...
Page 44 - 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 52 - the frequency of hysteria is no less remarkable than the multiformity of the shapes it puts on. Few maladies are not imitated by it; whatever part of the body it attacks, it will create the proper symptom of that part.
Page 27 - I consider the treatment of the great majority of diseases to consist in increasing the quantity of healthy blood and giving force to the action of the heart. You can't cure disease with a feeble pulse. Mend the pulse, and Nature will do the rest of the •work. On this principle disease in general may be treated, so far as my observation has gone, with pre-eminent success. In order to appreciate fully its force, you must start with the conviction that Nature cures and not man — man removes obstructions...
Page 98 - She accompanied her family to a ball, her foot, as she entered the ballroom, being not yet restored to its normal position. She was invited to dance, and under this novel excitement she stood up, and to the astonishment of her family, she danced the whole evening, having almost suddenly recovered the healthy, muscular action of the limb. She came to see me,
Page 50 - ... apparently so truly local an affection that there is some excuse for error, but only because hysteric affections are not half studied. When one or more of the fingers is permanently flexed from local causes, the seat of disease will be found in the fascial structures of the hand or in the finger itself, or a joint may have been diseased or dislocated ; but here there is no thickening, nor hardness, or other morbid change of structure. The finger is simply bent, and the attempt to straighten it...
Page 5 - I made the inquiry, and learned that Mr. Jones invariably gave every patient on whom he operated at least a pint of port wine on each of the two days following the operation, and he acknowledged to me that he owed the treatment which had been attended with such remarkable results, to his observation of the success that had attended my treatment in St.
Page 45 - If you will so focus your mental vision, and endeavor to distinguish the minute texture of your cases, and look into and not at them, you will acknowledge the truth of the description, and you will adopt a sound principle of treatment that meets disease face to face with a direct instead of an oblique force, which far too generally claims the credit of a success for which nature alone is responsible. I have selected above three varieties of this local hysteric affection. Let us consider them a little...
Page 52 - I don't see how this striking truth can be told in stronger language ; and again I tell you the mock is far more common than the real disease, and I warn you against that error in diagnosis which confounds the one with the other. It is not an easy task to select the class of constitutions most liable to hysteric disease. Probably under certain conditions of impaired health the large proportion of the community would give evidence of its presence. Certainly it is uncommon in the lower class of males,...
Page 60 - ... with the disease. These curious attacks, though they appear to the subjects of them irresistible, are yet but the result of what has been termed a surrender, and might be prevented by an adequate motive. The mode adopted to arrest this curious malady consists in bringing these persons under the influence of some powerful mental emotion, and in making some strong and sudden impression on the mind through the medium of, probably, the most potent of all impressions, fear. They are not lost to consciousness,...