Nerve prostration and other functional disorders of daily life / by Robson Roose.

  • Roose, Edward Charles Robson.
Date:
1891
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    eases, such as fevers, pneumonia, etc., and the ansemic state in general predispose to attacks. Hysterical symptoms are sometimes witnessed in children, the subjects of latent tuberculosis. Of the exciting causes of the paroxysms anything capable of strongly impressing the nervous system is by far the most active. The first attack is liable to be induced by mental shocks of various kinds, e.g., terror, anger, grief, or even surprise, and when the hysterical condition has been established, slight causes of this kind will suffice to provoke a paroxysm. The imitative impulse is another powerful exciting cause; the sight of one woman in hysterical con- vulsions has often induced similar paroxysms in others who had previously shown no signs of the disorder. Epidemics of hysteria form one of the most curious chapters in geographical and historical pathology. With regard to various morbid states of the system, as causes of the affection, there is much reason for believing that hysterical symptoms in middle-aged women are sometimes referable to the presence of the gouty diathesis, and are to be classed among the irregular gouty manifestations. It is easily conceivable that the accumulation of sodium-urate in the blood, acting as an irritant to the nervous system, should provoke attacks in those who are in any way predisposed to them. SYMPTOMS.—It is well nigh impossible to give a succinct and connected account of the protean manifestations of