A treatise on hysterical affections / by George Tate.

  • Tate, George
Date:
1858
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Credit: A treatise on hysterical affections / by George Tate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pass the limits of excited sensibility, &c. Now in the first paragi'aph Dr. Ashwell has misquoted my words, and in the second has misconceived my meaning. In representing me to have said that Spinal Irritation precedes the uterine disturb- ance, he makes me litter an absurdity. I dis- tinctly stated the reverse. I said, the first thing in the aggravated forms of Hysteria, about which such strange blunders are committed, is uterine disturbance, and the second Spinal Irritation; and thence are aU the fantastic phases of this multi- plex disorder disseminated. In the latter paragraph Dr. Ashwell appears to have been under the impression that I consider the spinal tenderness to depend on inflammation; whereas it wiU be seen in the following pages that, instead of giving countenance to such an opinion, I have altogether discarded it. A man of Dr. Ashwell's acuteness should not have made such a mistake. It should have been apparent that if, in allusion to spinal tenderness and irritation, I had meant to inculcate the pre- sence of inflammation of the spinal sheath, or ligaments, or bones, I should have stood convicted of leading into dangerous error, where it was my pui'pose to enlighten and instruct. Whether the mistake of Dr. Ashwell be attributable to dcfi-
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