Illustrations of unconscious memory in disease : including a theory of alteratives / by Charles Creighton.

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1886
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Credit: Illustrations of unconscious memory in disease : including a theory of alteratives / by Charles Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Albuminuria. PAGE Permanent Albuminuria following a cold of the Kidneys . 110 Summary of the causes of albuminous leakage . . Ill The leakage becoming habitual: retentive memory of disordered vaso-motor action ..... 112 Structural changes most apt to follow vaso-motor habit . 114 Habit-breaking drugs less effective here . . .115 The indications for treating diseases should include the effacing of old memories ..... 116 CHAPTEE IX. Morbid Habit summed up in Diathesis. Three selected Food-diatheses (Hutchinson): Pellagra, Leprosy, and Beriberi ..... 117 Errors of Diet and certain nervous phenomena common to the three . . . . . .118 Pellagra. Phenomena of Pellagra .... 119 Due to habitual Diet of damaged Maize . . . 120 The habit becomes an incurable Diathesis (Tropho-neurosis) . tb. Leprosy. Tropho-neurotic affinities of Leprosy to Pellagra . .121 Conformity of type due to steady pressure of uniform causes . 122 Objections to the putrid-fish hypothesis not insuperable . ii. Such objections answered for Assam . . . 123 Other objections answered .... 125 Unwholesome food-habits make a permanent Tropho-neurosis . 126 Beriberi. Affinities of Beriberi to Pellagra and Leprosy . . 127 Distinctive characters . . . . ib. Somehow associated with monotonous Diet of Rice . . 128 Summary of Unconscious Memory in the food-diatheses : heredity 129