An Account of some of the most important diseases peculiar to women / by Robert Gooch.

  • Gooch, Robert, 1784-1830.
Date:
1836
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Credit: An Account of some of the most important diseases peculiar to women / by Robert Gooch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    but that there is a stage approaching convales- cence, in which the bodily disease is loosening its hold over the mental faculties, and which the lat- ter are capable of being drawn out of the former by judicious appeals to the mind. I know too well that striking cases give an in- accurate notion of the average influence of reme- dies to expect that similar conduct will often be followed by similar success, yet I would ask these questions: How long would this patient have re- mained in a disordered state of mind, if she had not been treated in this way ? And, again, how many persons are there at this time in a similar state, who (although those who have the care of them do not suspect it,) are capable of being restored in a similar way to their natural views and feelings ? If the reader will attend not only to the case itself, but to the remark which follows it, he will not attribute to me any disposition to deny the efficacy of seclusion and control in ordinary cases, and in the active states of the disease.