Nerves in disorder : a plea for rational treatment / by Alfred T. Schofield.

  • Alfred Taylor Schofield
Date:
[1927?]
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Credit: Nerves in disorder : a plea for rational treatment / by Alfred T. Schofield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Little Finger—“Ideal” Agony in a But¬ cher—Seven Causes for the Same Pain— Undistinguishable in Nerve Disease—Pain is a Mental Impression—Pain may be with or without a Physical Origin—Uncon¬ scious Mind produces Nerve Mimicry— Health is Unstable Equilibrium—Power of the Intellect—Power of the Emotions—■ ^Etiology of Nerve Disease—The Predis¬ posing Cause is Hereditary—Exciting Causes—Worry—Mental Idleness—Strain and Overwork—Physical and Other Causes—Nervous People the Salt of the Earth—Details of Neurasthenia—Causes of Neurasthenia and Hysteria—Neuras¬ thenia in Clever People—Classes of Neuras¬ thenics—Not due to Rush of Life—Causes of Neurasthenia—Effect of Alcohol—List of Symptoms of Neurasthenia—some Addi¬ tions—Classification of Symptoms—Two Stages in Neurasthenia—Symptoms of Nerve Irritation—Repose a Sign of Brain Power—Nervous Debility-—Neuromimesis and Hysteria—Seat is in the Brain—Pain the Common Symptom in Hysteria—The Cause being in the Brain—It is wrong to describe “Brain Pain” as Nothing at all— Symptoms of True Emotional Hysteria— Simulations of Hysteria, or Neuromimesis— Hysterical and Insane—Nervousness is not Hysteria—Hysteria in Ill-balanced Brains —“Suppressed” Gout and Hysteria—Dr. Buzzard on the Hysterical—Hysterical Cases not Fraudulent—Hysterical Joint Disease—Changes in the Joint—Hysterical
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