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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    this case, it is a common sequel of the removal of a mechanical stimulus. The restless expenditure of energy is replaced by languor, and the exhausted ganglion cells should be given a good many months of repose before being called on for much exertion. Case 17. Incomplete Dementia Pre- cox.—The importance of peripheral irrita- tion in the members of the community whomGrasset calls the Semi-insane and the Semi-responsible, suggested in the above case, is also of interest in the following recital of his life-experience given to me recently by a friend in the legal profession. The subject of this little autobiographic sketch is now forty-three years old. He says he was always difficult to manage at school, but was well, robust, and muscular. When he was a boy he had a controversy with a teacher and left school at the age of sixteen. At that time he struck out for himself. He then suffered for ten years from an uncontrollable impulse to wander. He