The treatment of nervous disease / by J. J. Graham Brown.

Date:
1905
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Credit: The treatment of nervous disease / by J. J. Graham Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Particularly should you be cautious of allowing a neurotic woman, especially if young and un- married, to pass under any prolonged gyneco- logical treatment. So far as my experience goes, such treatment in these cases is more often produc- tive of harm than good. I should like you to lay down this general rule for yourselves—namely, that unless there be some very definite uterine lesion which can unquestionably be removed within a short time, no gynecological treatment should be adopted in neurotic women. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule, and each case should Ije judged on its own merits; but without any doubt, prolonged treatment which is always directing the patient’s attention anew to Cte these organs, and which involves repeated vaginal in deaUnr, j^q^^tioii, often does harm in neurotic women. And much the same rule applies in the case ot neurotic men. Any local urethral treatment (save for gonorrhoea or other definite local malady) should only be allowed, if allowed at all, after grave consideration. A full consideration of prophylaxis should in- clude within its scope all of these and many other similar causes. Such as are more closely con- nected with the nervous system will be referred