Insomnia and nerve strain / by Henry S. Upson ; with skiagraphic illustrations.

  • Upson, Henry Swift, 1859-1913.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Insomnia and nerve strain / by Henry S. Upson ; with skiagraphic illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    made. A patient in whom suppuration was present at the roots of one of the teeth was subject to a depression which seemed to her like a cloud enveloping her. On opening the tooth the cloud lifted. When the tooth was closed there invariably followed within about an hour a settling down of this emotional cloud, even when the patient supposed that the tooth had simply been treated but not olosed. The result was invariable on several trials so long as the abnormal dental condition persisted. Case 8. Melancholia.—Emotional variations which accompany disorders of the abdominal and pelvic viscera are so common as to be matters of daily observation. It is of special importance to realize that there is no essential differ- ence between mild cases of this character and the severer cases of melancholia and mania which, due to the same cause, present all of the mental symptoms char- acteristic of what are considered true psychoses. The clinical picture of agitated