Hysteria : remote causes of disease in general. Treatment of disease by tonic agency. Local or sugical forms of hysteria, etc. / Six lectures, delivered to the students of St. Bartholomew's hospital, 1866, by F. C. Skey.

  • Frederic Carpenter Skey
Date:
1868
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Credit: Hysteria : remote causes of disease in general. Treatment of disease by tonic agency. Local or sugical forms of hysteria, etc. / Six lectures, delivered to the students of St. Bartholomew's hospital, 1866, by F. C. Skey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tendency yields, and the employment of the splint for a week or two may suffice ; but the disease may stealthily return, and the limb should be still kept under some form of re- straint for several weeks. In the year 1864 a young lady, of sixteen years of age, was placed under my care under the following circumstances : For eight months prior to her visit to me she had been suf- fering from inversion of the left foot, which was so twisted as to bring the point of the foot to the opposite ankle; in fact, at nearly a right angle with the foot of the opposite side. Her family consulted a surgeon of much experience in the treatment of distortions, and of orthopaedic noto- riety. The case was considered as an example of an ordi- nary distortion, and the foot was placed in a very elabor- ately made foot-splint, by the force of which it was made to approach a parallel relation to the opposite foot; but it was an approach only, for no mechanism could retain it in a perfect position, the toes yet in some degree pointing inward. Months elapsed, and the disease continued un- changed. A second orthopaedic authority was then con- sulted in conjunction with the first, and, as no new light was thrown on the disease by the combined opinions of the two, the same principle of treatment was recommended to be continued, and the mechanism was yet somewhat more elaborated. And thus the eight months of the young lady's life passed away, during which no constitutional treatment of any kind was resorted to, and loss of exercise—for she walked, it is almost unnecessary to say, with great difficulty —with other attendant evils, exercised a great prejudicial influence on her health.
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