Neurasthenia / by Gilbert Ballet ; translated from the third French edition by P. Campbell Smith.

Date:
1911
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Credit: Neurasthenia / by Gilbert Ballet ; translated from the third French edition by P. Campbell Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    effect of massage and faradisation on, 355 ;—and Weir Mitchell's dietary, 357. EARS; noises in, 47,87,103; malformations of, 98. Earthquakes, a cause of trau- matic N., 35, 102. Eccentricity, in early history of hereditary neurasthenics, 91. Economical and political con- ditions, abrupt change of, the cause of the increase in N., 8, 9. Eczema, 158. Education ; bad, a cause of N., 16, 36 ; insufficient physical, 16 ; of children with neurotic heredity, 142- 170 (physical, 144, 145, 146-158; moral, 144, 145, 159-170; intellectual, 145); different views as to power of, 142-144 ; may substitute acquired for innate habits, 144 ; triple aim of, 144 ; varying ideals of, 146, 147 ; family system of, 15], 152. Eels, 264. Effleurage, 272. Effort, mental, incapacity for, 22, 71, 72, 93, 104. Eggs, 218, 232, 240, 241, 254, 257, 260, 261, 262, 263, 303, 304, 306, 361, 362. Ego, weakening of, 72. Electricity; not a panacea, 179; psychical action of, 183, 184, 187, 188, 199; static, 187 ; galvanic, 187, 251, 365, 368; faradic, 187, 251, 342, 355, 365, 368; in gastric atony, 251, 252 ; in constipation, 273 ; in Weir Mitchell's treatment, 342, 348, 355, 357; in genital atony, 364, 365, 368. Emaciation, 59, 67, 96, 212, 238, 245, 249, 340, 346, 347, 359. Emission, centre for, 98, 363, 367. Emissions, 88, 99, 366. Emotionalism; a symptom,42, 71, 93, 103, 180; congenital, 167 ; benefited by country life, 333. Emotional side, most neuras- thenics affected on the, 26. Emotional states ; distressing in N., 71, 79 ; contagious- ness of, 168. Emotional tendencies in family history, 15. Emotions ; affect cerebral cir- culation more strongly than does intellectual work, 19, 20; depressing, an impor- tant cause of N., xviii, 19, 25, 26, 33, 36, 54, 159, 180, 181; of Reichmann's disease, 66 ; sudden and violent, the cause of traumatic N., 34, 53, 102 ; a cause of dys- pepsia, 59,130; disorder of, the primary phenomenon in melancholia, 119. Emptiness, feeling of, in cranium, 46. Encouragement, beneficial action of, 74, 185, 202. Enemata ; for thirst, 242 ; in constipation, 269, 270, 273, 274, 275, 276, 280; in muco- membranous colitis, 298, 300; in genital N., 367 ; irritating, a cause of muco- membranous colitis, 292. Enervation, caused by sea- side, 334.