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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    319 ; frequent attacks of, a contra-indication to high altitudes, 331. Vexation ; a cause of N., 25; vexation of self-esteem, 28. Vichy water, 260. Villacabras water, 291. Viscera ; innervation of, af- fected by N., 2 ; vaso-motor disturbances in, 85; pains in, supposed to be a contra- indication to Weir Mitch- ell's treatment, 362. Visceral derangements, a sup- posed cause of N., 4. Vision ; rapid fatigue of, 86, 93, 103 ; narrowing of field of, 8G, 87. Voluntary movements, ex- hausting to some neuras- thenics, 341. Vomiting ; absent in simple hyperchlorhydria, 65; pres- ent in Reichmann's disease, 66, 67, 68 ; frequently ac- companies vertigo, 76; in traumatic N., 104. WAKING, exhaustion on, 128. Walking; a valuable exer- cise, 152, 157, 344 ; in pure cerebrasthenia, 189; after lunch, in severe gastro- intestinal atony, 247 ; very tiring in N. of women, 95 Washing out; stomach, 252, 255 ; intestine, 300, 301. Wasting; common in N., 211; but far from constant, 212; in severe form of gastro-intestinal atony, 59; little or none in slight form, 61 ; in continuous form of Reichmann's disease, 67 ; a cause of tachycardia, 82 ; in N. of women, 96, 346. 347, 359 ; in neurasthenics with enteroptosis, 284. Water, should a gouty neurasthenic drink much ? 259. Watering-places, in muco- membranous colitis, 301. Waters, mineral, for table, 242, 263, 306. Waters, natural aperient, 268, 278, 290, 291, 299. Weakness, irritable, of nerve elements, N. defined as, 2, 308; in heart's action, 83; in vaso-motor system, 134 ; in N., minor, xvi. Weakness, see Asthenia. Weighing; of food, 216, 217, 229; of patient, 216, 221. Weir Mitchell's treatment, 94, 185,249, 347-360; Burkart and Leyden's contra-indica- tions, 362; necessity that the patients should under- stand the end pursued, 362. Westphal's sign, 111, 206 and note. Wet pack, 309, 312; with friction, 309, 314 , dripping, without friction, 310, 314; abdominal or epigastric, 320, 321. Whiskey, 359. Whistling in ears, 76, 87. Whiting, 261. Will; enfeeblement of, 70, 72, 95, 119, 160, 181, 186, 342, 346,347, 348, 359; see also Aboulia; child's, often broken by too rigid rules, 148; education of, 163, 164, 168; treatment to restore, 181,184, 185, 186,188, 195, 202, 203, 359. Wind, sensitiveness to, 78.