Neurasthenia and its treatment by hypodermic transfusions : (according to the method of Doctor Jules Chéron) / by Ralph Browne.

  • Chéron, Jules.
Date:
1894
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    ranged rather than exalted, and the ideas set forth by M. Charcot upon motor-cerebral localizations, and the researches related by M. Féré in his book, “ Sensation et Mouvement,” to which we hâve already referred, are typically confirmed in relation with the neurasthénie. The neurasthénie feels more acutely than a healthy person ail that touches his sickly egoism, the smallest troubles overwhelm him, nervous pains which are never really acute make him hopeless. If he is flatulent, the least gurgling of ofas in the intestine is sufficient to cause him o anguish. His emotivity is pushecl to excess. He gives way to tears and laughter, especially to tears, on the slightest provocation, and his excessive emotionality reaches irritability ; tears and quick anger succeed each other often without any transition. Neurasthénies are not only, as was mentioned before, of ail classes, but are of ail kinds and condi- tions. It is, unfortunately, not rare to meet them amongst the most intelligent and the most literate of men. It seems even that, more than ail others, such men are predisposed to this nervous malady, whose spécial bearing, which we are about to analyze, has as its resuit more particularly the profound functional alteration undergone by the organ which in itself possesses intelligence, memory, will, character. Amidst these high functions neurasthenia comports itself as follows : Intellectual lucidity is, as it were, numbed, the