A treatise on the nervous diseases of women ; comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes, and treatment of spinal and hysterical disorders / By Thomas Laycock, M.D.

  • Laycock, Thomas, 1812-1876.
Date:
1840
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Credit: A treatise on the nervous diseases of women ; comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes, and treatment of spinal and hysterical disorders / By Thomas Laycock, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CHAPTER VI.—Relations of the Emotions, Pas- sions, AND Propensities, to the Nervous Diseases of Women. Section I.—The Emotions and Passions 172 a. General RemarJcs;—the emotions act on the whole system— iUustrations 172 h. The Depressing Passions, Grief, Fear, and their modifications;— effects of fear—of grief—excites laughter and gaiety—grief from erotic disappointment 173-176 c. The Erotic Passion;—nymphomania 176 d. Jealousy, Rage ;—j ealousy kills brutes—effects of rage 178 Section II.—The Propensity to Imitate 179 Mode in which it operates—Chevreul's experiment—does not excite movements only—is assisted by emotional feelings—excites epidemic convulsions—in Germany after the black death—St. John's dance in Holland—St. Vitus' dance near Ulm—dance in the Cevennes—the Janon in Africa—endemic convulsions in Lanarkshire, the United States, Zetland, Angus-shire, Wales— endemic amongst women and children 179-182 Section III.—Causes which modify the Influence of the Pas- sions IN Woman 182 The monthly periodic movement—maternal cares—influenced by disease—illustrations 182-184 CHAPTER VIL—Relations of the Nervous Diseases OF Women to the Nervous System in General. Introductory remarks 185 Section I.—The Relations of some General Paroxysmal Af- fections TO THE Cerebellum and contiguous Ganglia 185 Convulsive diseases closely allied—trochaic or true chorea and Angus-shire ague—convulsive flexion and extension—vertical and horizontal rotation—^retrograde movements—impulse for- wards—epilepsia dromica—great facility in balancing the body— analogous symptoms in other diseases and morbid states—illus- trations—waltzing, Stoll, J. Hunter, ants;—relations of these con- vulsive movements to measured time—ganglia affected—shown from the experiments of Flourens, Magendie, Bouillaud-—from pathological observations of Toulmouche, Andral, Aberci-ombie, Greding, Serres—from the physical effects of poisons 185-193