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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    the society of his intimate friends, and of his rela- tives, whom he loved as sincerely as he was be- loved by them. He passed entire days in a state of inaction and complete apathy, careless of the urgent entreaties that were made to him to seek distractions in the theatre and other modes of amusement. The advantage derivable from these sources he recognised and willingly acknowledged; but the moral energy, the power of acting, even according to his infelt wishes, was wanting, and he again plunged into an apathetic stupor. The me- dical gentleman who attended him, despairing of influencing his patient’s mind by reason and ad- vice, recommended his friends to send him to the capital. “ When I first saw him he was taciturn, and had a look of astonishment and stupefaction. In order to gain his confidence, I first of all feigned to enter into several of his ideas. I told him that he really was very unwell, and, I doubted not, in a state of great suffering; that his disorder would require a long process of treatment, but that I could assure him, from the experience of several cases of a similar character, that his recovery was almost certain. He then proceeded to describe his state : —‘ I. am,’ said he, * deprived of all intellect, of all sensibility ; I feel nothing ; I neither see nor hear; I have no ideas ; I experience neither pain nor pleasure ; all action, all sensation, is alike indif-