A treatise on hysteria / by George Tate.

  • Tate, George
Date:
1831
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Credit: A treatise on hysteria / by George Tate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    44 come like shadows,—so depart,” they never do occur without a combined error in the nervous system and in the uterine functions. All hypothesis further than this, appears to be at present unsatis¬ factory, and may be fallacious. It would be no discredit to a Bell, a Brodie, or a Philip, to dedicate their enterprising talents to this inquiry; and, by exploring the nature of the derangement of the nervous system in Hysteria, and tracing it to its source, add another leaf to their well-earned laurels, and another valuable dis¬ covery to those for which we are already their debtors. It is a subject abounding with interest. Its peculiarities and varieties are daily perplexing us: we stare with wonder at the caprices of our own nature, yet years roll on, and we make no attempt to arrive at the source of these things, or of the streams through which they flow. For this undertaking, a minute knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system must be premised; then, by extending our observations on the disorders themselves, and afterwards, by noting the correspondence that may exist between the internal disturbance, and the outward and visible phenomena, we may be enabled to draw such
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