A treatise on hysterical affections / by George Tate.

  • Tate, George.
Date:
1858
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    lu ray own hands the results of that practice have been signally successful] and so many ac- knowledgments bearing similar testimony have reached me from various quarters, that, in pre- paring another edition with so little variation from the preceding one, I hope to be acquitted of an overweening confidence, as well as of carelessness or indifference. There are, however, two points upon which I am desirous to say a few words in this preface: first, in reference to i\\e peculiar pain in the left side, so com- mon and so troublesome in Hysterical cases ; and, secondly, to the tenderness in various divisions of the spinal column : two remarkable and very signifi- cant symptoms, which I was the first to point out, and which are now admitted to be diagnostic facts of considerable value. With regard to the former,— pain in the left side, situated generally between two of the ribs immediately under the breast,—it has been stated by a writer of eminence that this peculiar pain does not pertain so much to Hys- terical cases as to Leucorrhosa, by which it is inva- riably attended; the Leucorrhoea being consequent upon inflammation, if not ulceration of the uterus. At an early period of life I was so much struck by the frequent occurrence and singular locality of this pain, that I devoted great attention to it, and the train of symptoms associated Avith it; and