Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / by S. Weir Mitchell.

Date:
1902
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    I broke up the association which had nearly been fatal to both women, and, confidently prom- ising a cure, carried out my treatment in full. In three months she went home well and happy, greatly improved in looks, her skin clear, her functions regular, and weighing one hundred and thirty-six pounds. It is vain to repeat the relation of such cases, and impossible to put on paper the means for deciding—what is so large a part of success in treatment—the moral methods of obtaining con- fidence and insuring a childlike acquiescence in every needed measure. Another class of cases will, however, bear some further illustration. We meet with women who are healthy in mind, but who have some chronic pain or some definite malady which does not get well, either because the usual tonics fail, or because their occupations in life keep them always in a state of exhaustion. If by rest we 3low the machinery, and by massage and elec- tricity deprive rest of its evils, we can often obtain cures which are to be had in no other way. This i3 true of many uterine and of some other disorders. Miss B., set. 37, height five feet five inches,