The morbid emotions of women; their origin, tendencies, and treatment / By Walter Johnson.

  • Johnson, Walter, M.B, approximately 1825-1913?
Date:
1850
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Credit: The morbid emotions of women; their origin, tendencies, and treatment / By Walter Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    finding him addicted to strong tea, recommended abstinence from this beverage. The advice was followed, and the patient’s pulse became firm and regular. I have lately met, in the course of my reading, with a curious case, thus described in a work recently published by Dr. Schmalze, the well- known aurist of Dresden. “ Thirteen years ago, Dr. L., a physician of Prag, then in the twenty- second year of his age, being, in consequence of inflammation of the liver, from which he had recently recovered, reduced to a state of extreme nervousness, so that the slightest opposition threw him into a violent passion, accompanied by trem- bling of the whole body and difficulty of speech, observed that as soon as he drank in the morning strong coffee, he could no longer hear the final syllables of the words he uttered, so that he knew not whether he had actually spoken them or not. At the same time he experienced a sensation as though bladders were bursting in his ears, and the eustachian tube (the channel of communication between the ear and throat) were stopped up. As soon as the bladders in the ear burst he re- covered from this state, but in a few seconds fell into it again. These phenomena, which lasted two hours every day, permanently vanished after the lapse of eight weeks. As soon as he ceased