Hysteria and neurasthenia / by J. Michell Clarke.

  • Clarke, John Mitchell, 1859-1918.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Hysteria and neurasthenia / by J. Michell Clarke. 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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    PREFACE I have attempted in this little book to give a concise account of Hysteria and Neurasthenia. The clinical aspect of these diseases has been kept in view throughout. The literature of the subject is now so enormous that without very greatly exceeding my limits it was obviously impossible to deal at all fully with it, but it would not be right for me not to acknowledge, even thus imperfectly, my great indebtedness to former writers, and especially the more recent ones, on Hysteria and Neurasthenia. The perusal of their works, so many of them distinguished by wealth of observation and breadth of knowledge, makes me fully conscious of my own short- comings. Whilst, however, my endeavour has been to keep within moderate limits, and to give the results of my own clinical observation, I trust that I have left out nothing of importance, and that this little work may prove of some ser- vice as a practical guide, and that the statements made in it have at least the merits of accuracy and clearness. I have thought it advisable to consider Traumatic Hysteria and Neurasthenia