A case of hemophilia / by R.F. Sheehan.

  • Sheehan, R.F.
Date:
[1905?]
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Credit: A case of hemophilia / by R.F. Sheehan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 364 PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE. Other is also a hemophiliac. Two maternal cousins, boy and girl, both had the condition. A maternal aunt, who is free her- self has a daughter with the tendency. His maternal grand- mother bled very easily until after she was married. On the. paternal side, there is no history of the condition. Personal History; patient has never been sick. When two years old he shoved a pencil into bis throat, from which injury, he bled profusely, it being necessary to ligate the injured vessel. About a week ago bled considerably from slight cut on finger. He has never shown any signs of joint involvement. 479 Delaware Avenue. PROGRESS IIN MEDICAL SCIENCE. Nervous and Mental Diseases By R. F. SHEEHAN, M. D., Buffalo, N, Y, Late House Physician at the Buffalo General Hospital. Myophobia, by John Punton {Journal Nervous and Mental dis-- eases— October, 1905) That if there is a dividing line between! the neuroses aifd psychoses insanity exists upon both sides of this- line. Hence the term neurasthenia is often a polite misnomer' for insanity. \ That a large^number of the so-called neurastheiiias, and all i the hysterias shotald be classed as the prodromal Stages of the; psychoses. \ / That these non-msane psychoses, however, a^ rule first come’ under the observatioli of the family'physician^^ho unfortunately’ often fails to recogniite their true psychological significance until! the obsession impulse \ecomes most conspfcuous. That the vast maj^ity however, sgio to be suffering from, these nervous effections,uipon strict e:^-^mination are found to be' afflicted with a true psAho-neurosi.5, which we term ps}'chas-- thenia or which better mi^t be called psychosomatasthenia. That because we do n<^ recognise these conditions, as true ■ psychoses, we neglect stringent measures of treatment and so account for our inability to cArs such ailments, as the longer the duration, without appropriate 'treatment, the less chance of re- covery. That if agreed that insanity Jjn its incipiency is curable, why allow it to become 'incurable before applying the legitimate means and measuj^s that favor its cure. From which/ihe following conclusions are deduced. 1st. That tlig :lose relation which ^ists between the so-called neurasthenias and insanity is so veiy\striking, as to establish a true equivalency.