An exposition of the symptoms, essential nature, and treatment of neuropathy, or nervousness / by James Manby Gully.

  • Gully, James Manby, 1808-1883.
Date:
1837
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Credit: An exposition of the symptoms, essential nature, and treatment of neuropathy, or nervousness / by James Manby Gully. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    been disfigured by an eruption of this kind, which uncharitable perspns have attributed to the free use of the opiate too often employed on such occasions, —brandy. It is, however, only a more tangible and permanent form of the sanguineous conges- tions previously alluded to. 4. Mental Disorders.—These numerous lesions, which are the result of a vicious innervation, caused by the different concentrations of visceral irritation, cannot fail to make a deep impression on the in- tellect : for the same variety of organization that makes an individual subject to internal nervous affections deprives him of the power of bearing them with equanimity. Thus it is that neuropa- thies give way to settled grief, to suspicion, to impatience, or to fiery and almost involuntary irascibility. Many of them, however, seem, even in disease, incapable of anything but gentleness and kindness; whilst others display a totally dif- ferent temper at different times of the day,—the neuropathic who receives you in the morning with affability, offending you by his brusquerie in the evening. Groaning under the horrors of their situation, for which they cannot account, and the termination of which they cannot accurately guess, sinister presentiments take possession of them. In prospective all is lowering : they have a much more honest fear of the continuance of their con- dition than of the chimerical idea of an approach-